Did Supreme Court Justice Richard Davenport stand by and watch when his wife fell to her death into a raging sea? Or, as whispered inside the Beltway, did the new justice do something far worse? With his foe, Senator Oren Nyquist, watching closely, Davenport must now cast the deciding vote in two cases that in their moral implications mirror the deepest anguish over what happened that night on the Nantucket ferry.
