Enterprise Reporter

Jesse Alejandro Cottrell

“There are very few American citizens who are not touched by this fairly directly,” says retired Judge Dana Leigh Marks.

Crying on the job, personal effects prepacked, more firings expected soon — and the cases just keep piling up.

"It's quite terrifying" said a tourist staying in a neighboring building.

The Standard’s D.C.-based reporter describes the scene on the ground in her hometown.

“We were anxious to come today,” one mother told The Standard as she dropped off her kids.