A quarter-century ago, in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, John Gleeson remarked that his “whole life” was gathered in the room where he would be formally inducted as a trial judge.

“I don’t want to make you nervous,” he told the crowd, according to a 1995 article in the New Yorker, “but I can think of some people who wouldn’t mind at all if the roof caved in.”

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