Part of being an elected official is getting feedback, positive or negative, fair or unfair. You can puff up and throw down your bonafides, or you can take a minute and reflect. What is the sentiment that led people to react so strongly to what can fairly be seen as a blip? What do voters want?

I live in your district, I’ve met you, and I like and respect you. However, I am deeply, deeply sad and disappointed that Marjorie Taylor Greene is speaking about the genocide in Gaza and you aren’t, as far as I’ve seen. What level of suffering is enough? How many dead children?

That was beautifully-worded: “it needs the language of the soul to adequate describe it.” And so true.

Scalia was pretty awful, by some standards, to O’Connor in several cases I remember from school. But then he supposedly had great relationships with the other justices, so I guess she took it in stride as part of him generally being a crank.

This a great piece! Thanks for writing it. Mr. Lander should give us all hope that integrity matters still in American politics.