Supreme Court draws who’s who of spectators during high-stakes term

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Fed board of governors member Lisa Cook faced a choice ahead of this week’s Supreme Court oral argument: show up, or sit it out?  They chose visibility, forming part of a crowd of economic and legal heavyweights in the justices’ lines of sight as they mulled the future of the Fed’s protections from the executive branch.  Some others involved in recent high-profile Supreme Court cases have stayed away for their own...