"It feels like a 1776 kind of fight"

Now, 48 hours later, in her office, she used a Kleenex to wipe her eyes.

“Hell of a lot of pressure,” I offered.

“I think it’s not the pressure of doing this, because I think we were all comfortable doing this,” she told me. “I think it’s the pressure of conveying to our country—because I think we all understand how egregious this is—and so, if we somehow fail in conveying that to the country, and fail in conveying how important this is, and fail in conveying why we need to support the Constitution and our values, and why need to be better than, you know, what we’re demonstrating, if we fail to bring America along with this, that feels … like a really big blow to our values. It feels like … a crack in the Constitution.”

Again, her voice got thick, shaky.

“And that,” she said, “feels like a really big responsibility.”