A wild part of working at the Capitol was that I have a very vivid memory of going to the Sweetgreen on the House side on a slow news day and just walking past Elena Kagan, headphones in, crossing the street a foot away from me in the opposite direction.

Matt Ford

A small, sad marker of the times from Justice Jackson. Until the late 2010s the justices rarely had security at all. DC folks would routinely see them alone at bookstores, farmers markets, and so on. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...