The Duncan’s 30-to-40-some-odd residents made up a tiny part of the count of people experiencing housing insecurity in the city, but their dramatic displacement was key to mobilizing public support.
“Many of my colleagues were more fortunate than other government and non-government employees who were so adversely affected by the shutdown.”
“I’ve seen firsthand how homelessness and housing insecurity can carry a kind of overlapping and compounding milieu of poor outcomes and vulnerabilities to my patients.”
“There is tremendous strength that comes when people of all good conscience come together.”
“I think a lot of my [writing] is aimed at pulling the curtain back and showing that these judges and their clerks–in addition to being great legal minds–are also people too, and are subject to all of the frailties and biases that all of us are subject to as human beings.”
It is hard to be immune to Ginsburg’s cool and composed accounts of her own life, or to suppress joy at the thought of the strides she has made for women and people of color in the United States.
“Ganim still touts his confident response: ‘Bring it on.'”
“Wolff’s broad claims are the same as what we have heard all year.”
