Three months ago , a 75-year-old lawmaker filed a complaint as part of an ongoing lawsuit in federal court, claiming that she had been unlawfully excluded from an upcoming board meeting that would determine the fate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It turned out that the invitation had landed in her spam folder—an admission that quickly became a political punch line , a real-life Veep episode in Washington politics. Today, the plaintiff—Representative Joyce Beatty—feels