# The sound **Published by:** [9D](https://paragraph.com/@twitwi/) **Published on:** 2023-02-01 **URL:** https://paragraph.com/@twitwi/the-sound ## Content Late one night in the spring of 1994, a 40-year-old federal judge was startled awake by loud pounding at the front door of his home in Vienna, Va. The sound was so jarring, so insistent, so out of character for his quiet Washington suburb that it unnerved J. Michael Luttig, a product of Northeast Texas who had put down deep roots in Beltway power circles. ## Publication Information - [9D](https://paragraph.com/@twitwi/): Publication homepage - [All Posts](https://paragraph.com/@twitwi/): More posts from this publication - [RSS Feed](https://api.paragraph.com/blogs/rss/@twitwi): Subscribe to updates