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With Hurricane Florence appearing to veer south and west on Friday, lawyer Debra Katz may be the biggest force disrupting the status quo in Washington this week.

Katz, founding partner of Katz, Marshall & Banks in D.C., testified before Congress, represented a woman taking on “Wall Street's Greatest Trader,” and was linked to Democrats' likely last best chance to derail Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination.