EditorialHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) walks from his office to the House Chamber at the Capitol in Washington, May 9, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
EditorialHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) walks from his office to the House Chamber at the Capitol in Washington, May 9, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
EditorialHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) walks from his office to the House Chamber at the Capitol in Washington, May 9, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
EditorialHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) walks from his office to the House Chamber at the Capitol in Washington, May 9, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
EditorialJustice Hector LaSalle, center, exits after his nomination for chief judge was rejected at the New York State Capitol, in Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (Cindy Schultz/The New York Times)
EditorialOutside the U.S. Capitol during a recess for dinner, on the second day of an impasse on election of a house speaker, in Washington, Jan. 4, 2023. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times)
EditorialRep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, on the chamber floor during another day of the impasse to elect a speaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 6, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialRepresentatives in chamber on the third day of an impasse in the election of a House speaker, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 5, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialReporters wait in a hallway as some House Republicans meet behind closed doors amidst an impasse in electing a speaker, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 5, 2023. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times)
EditorialHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)--- during a network television interview for the ABC program “This Week” on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 18, 2020. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)
EditorialImpasse des Bourdonnais in Paris, famously photographed by Eugene Atget in the early 20th century, on April 15, 2020. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)