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E. Jean Carroll tore through thedoors of the Fifth Avenue en-trance of Bergdorf Goodman, herheart racing.

Ms. Carroll, a journalist and thehost of the “Ask E. Jean” televisionshow at the time, had taped a seg-ment that day in 1996 at a studio inFort Lee, N.J. When it endedaround 5 p.m., she decided tocome into Manhattan to shop ather favorite store.

From the sidewalk, she phonedLisa Birnbach, a friend and authorof “The Official Preppy Hand-book.” Ms. Carroll was laughing atfirst as she described an encoun-ter she said she had just had in aBergdorf’s dressing room withDonald J. Trump that began ascheeky banter. But what she wassaying didn’t strike Ms. Birnbachas funny. “I remember her beingvery overwrought,” Ms. Birnbachsaid in an interview. “I rememberher repeatedly saying, ‘He pulleddown my tights, he pulled downmy tights.’” When Ms. Carroll fin-ished her account, Ms. Birnbach

said, “I think he raped you.”“Let’s go to the police,” she re-

called telling Ms. Carroll. But Ms.Carroll refused. A day or two later,she described the episode to an-other friend, Carol Martin, a TVhost at the same network. She ad-vised Ms. Carroll to stay silent.

“These traumas stay with you,”Ms. Martin said. “I didn’t knowwhat to do except listen.”

The three women didn’t speakabout the incident again until Ms.Carroll began preparing for herforthcoming book, they said. It be-came public last week when Ms.Carroll, in a New York magazineexcerpt from the book, accusedthe president of sexually assault-ing her years ago. It was the mostserious of multiple allegationswomen have made against him,all of which he has denied.

Ms. Birnbach and Ms. Martin,who haven’t previously spokenpublicly about Ms. Carroll’s ac-count, say they are doing so nowto bolster their friend, especiallysince she has been attacked in re-cent days by skeptics and somesupporters of Mr. Trump.

“I saw some horrible things thatpeople were posting on social me-

Why Now? What Made a Trump Accuser Confront Her SilenceThis article is by Jessica Bennett,

Megan Twohey and Alexandra Al-ter.

E. Jean Carroll in Bella Abzug Park in Manhattan this week.TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Hours before it was to become aflash point in the modern gayrights movement and a landmarkvisited with awe and reverencehalf a century later as if a shrine, itwas just a dark, dingy bar calledthe Stonewall Inn, just anotherFriday night in June.

A mobster named Fat Tony withthe Genovese crime family hadbought the place in Manhattantwo years earlier for a song — ithad been a restaurant damaged ina fire — and reopened it as a gaybar. The mob owned most of NewYork City’s gay bars, runningthem as private clubs becausethey could not obtain liquor li-censes. The bars were cash ma-chines.

Fat Tony slapped black paint onthe walls and windows and posteda man at the front door. A concretewishing well, inherited from therestaurant, remained inside thefront door. The new owner oftenboasted that he recouped his mod-est investment in the first fewhours of opening night in March

1967.There were two bars and rooms

for dancing to the jukebox. Bar-tenders made drinks with cheapliquor served out of bottles bear-ing brand-name labels. Dirtyglasses were dunked in dirtysinks. The drinking age was 18,and broke kids who couldn’t afforda drink held empty beer cans allnight to fool the waiter.

“It was a bar for the people who

The Night a Dark, Dingy BarBecame a Shrine of Gay Pride

By MICHAEL WILSON

Riots followed a raid at theStonewall Inn 50 years ago.

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WASHINGTON — Chief Jus-tice John G. Roberts Jr. has sat inthe center seat on the SupremeCourt bench since his arrival in2005. But only this term did he

assume true leader-ship of the court.

He made clear hisinfluence in a pair ofstunning decisions

on Thursday, joining the court’sliberal wing in one and his fellowconservatives in the other. Inproviding the decisive votes andwriting the majority opinions incases on the census and partisangerrymandering, he demonstrat-ed that he has unquestionablybecome the court’s ideologicalfulcrum after the departure lastyear of Justice Anthony M. Ken-nedy.

The key parts of both decisionswere decided by five-justicemajorities, and the chief justicewas the only member of thecourt in both.

The two rulings, one a rebuketo the Trump administration andthe other a boon to Republicans,was consistent with Chief Justice

Roberts’s insistence that politicsshould play no role in judging.“We don’t work as Democrats orRepublicans,” he said in 2016.

Conservatives expressed bitterfrustration on Thursday aboutwhat they saw as the chief jus-tice’s unreliability, if not betrayal.

“Chief Justice John Robertsdisappointed conservativestoday — to a degree not seensince he saved Obamacare in2012 — when he sided with thecourt’s four liberals to second-guess the Trump administra-tion’s reasons for adding a citi-zenship question to the census,”Curt Levey, the president of theCommittee for Justice, a conser-vative activist group, said in astatement. “The census decisionwill surely deepen the impres-sion that Roberts is the newJustice Kennedy, rather than thereliable fifth conservative votethat liberals feared and conser-vatives hoped for.”

On the horizon next term aresignificant cases — on the Sec-

Roberts Is the New Swing Vote,And Neither Party Is Overjoyed

By ADAM LIPTAK

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NEWSANALYSIS

WASHINGTON — In a pair ofdecisions with vast implicationsfor the American political land-scape, the Supreme Court onThursday delivered a victory toRepublicans by ruling that federalcourts are powerless to hear chal-lenges to extreme partisan gerry-mandering but gave a reprieve toDemocrats by delaying the Trumpadministration’s efforts to add aquestion on citizenship to the 2020census.

The key parts of both decisionswere decided by 5-to-4 votes.

In the gerrymandering case,Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.joined his usual conservative al-lies. In the census case, he brokewith them to vote with the court’sfour-member liberal wing in pre-venting, for now, what advocateshave argued would be a deterrentto immigrants from participatingin the once-a-decade count.

The gerrymandering decisionwas momentous, definitively clos-ing the door on judicial challengesto voting maps warped by politics.The practice of redrawing theboundaries of voting districts is al-most as old as the nation. Bothparties have used it, but in recentyears, Republicans have been theprimary beneficiaries.

The drafters of the Constitution,Chief Justice Roberts wrote forthe majority, understood that poli-tics would play a role in drawingelection districts when they gavethe task to state legislatures.Judges, he said, are not entitled tosecond-guess lawmakers’ judg-ments.

“We conclude that partisan ger-rymandering claims present polit-ical questions beyond the reach ofthe federal courts,” the chief jus-tice wrote.

In an impassioned dissent de-livered from the bench, JusticeElena Kagan said American de-mocracy would suffer thanks tothe court’s ruling in the two con-solidated cases decided Thursday,Rucho v. Common Cause, No. 18-422, and Lamone v. Benisek, No.18-726.

“The practices challenged inthese cases imperil our system ofgovernment,” she said. “Part ofthe court’s role in that system is to

COURT, RULING 5-4,GIVES GREEN LIGHT

TO GERRYMANDERFinds It Has No Role

— Census QueryIs Blocked

By ADAM LIPTAK

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WASHINGTON — The rulingsby the Supreme Court on Thurs-day in bitterly contested battlesover partisan gerrymanderingand the addition of a citizenshipquestion to the 2020 census grap-pled with issues fundamental tothe nation’s democracy: Howpower is allocated, and ultimately,how much of a voice the Americanpeople have in selecting theirleaders.

But far from settling these ques-tions, the court has unleashedeven higher-pitched and partisanstruggles over once-settled as-pects of the country’s governance,placing greater pressures on thenation’s political system.

Gerrymandered maps wereonce part of an unspoken agree-ment between rivals that pressingfor political advantage was, withinlimits, part of the electoral game.But in recent years Republicans,aided by sophisticated mapmak-ing software, have given them-selves near-unbreakable poweracross the country.

Now, with a green light from thejustices, the party has an opportu-nity to lock in political dominancefor the next decade in many of the22 states where it controls boththe legislature and the governor’soffice.

The decision will almost cer-tainly force Democrats, who con-trol 14 statehouses, to reconsidertheir belated crusade against ger-rymandered maps and begindrawing their own — an eat-or-be-eaten response to Republican suc-cess in gaming the redistrictingprocess.

“Expect the abuse to be super-charged,” said Justin Levitt, an as-sociate dean at Loyola Law Schooland a Justice Department officialduring the Obama administration.“Now the answer will be, ‘It hap-pens everywhere.’ Expect the dis-ease to spread.”

The justices also did not resolvewhat to do about adding a citizen-ship question to the census, whichuntil recently was regarded as anonpartisan ritual every 10 yearsfor the country to obtain an accu-rate head count of its residents.Now it is the object of a legal fire-fight over charges that it is being

Partisan Fight to Tiltthe Playing Fields

May Intensify

By MICHAEL WINES

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MIAMI — Joseph R. Biden Jr.repeatedly found himself on thedefensive in the Democratic de-bate on Thursday over his recordas well as his personal views, withthe most searing moment of thenight, and the primary campaignto date, coming when Senator Ka-mala Harris confronted him overhis comments on working withsegregationists in the Senate.

Mr. Biden, the Democraticfront-runner who was participat-ing in his first major debate in sev-en years, was at times halting andmeandering, but also forceful inpushing back on criticism of hisrecord. Those attacks included acall for the 76-year-old former vicepresident to “pass the torch” to ayounger generation, as well asquestions about his positions onimmigration and abortion, and hisenthusiasm for working with Re-publicans.

But the most dramatic ex-change was over not only policy,but also personal history. Peeringdown the stage to look at Mr. Bi-den directly, Ms. Harris assailedMr. Biden for remarks he made

this month invoking his work in aSenate that included a pair of no-torious segregationists. She thenwent further, recalling that he hadalso opposed school busing in the1970s.

“There was a little girl in Cali-fornia who was a part of the sec-ond class to integrate her publicschools, and she was bused toschool every day,” Ms. Harris said.“And that little girl was me.”

Mr. Biden responded indig-nantly, calling her attacks “a mis-

Seeking to Knock Front-Runner Off Stride, Rivals Barrage Biden

By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS

Climate activists outside theDemocratic forum in Miami.

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In a dramatic confrontation during Thursday’s debate, Kamala Harris challenged Joseph R. Biden Jr., left, over his record on race.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi let a Senate bor-der spending bill pass the House withoutcontrols sought by liberals. PAGE A16

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