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When she walked into the cloakroom that day, she overheard “members comparing stories of how I got their votes. Some with humor”—as was the case with Donnelly’s—and “some not.”

My classmates returned from the cafeteria, then scurried off to the cloakroom and the bathrooms and returned.

But the concert was sold out in the 6,200-seat hall, so some of the audience was still likely getting food or were shedding their heavy coats in the cloakroom.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming said she learned “about 15 seconds” before it happened — sitting in the chamber cloakroom when another colleague showed her the news on his phone.

It turns out that the justices—at least five of them on the right—are functionally indistinguishable from cynical partisan lawmakers making deals in the Senate cloakroom.