Micah Lasher, Congressman in Waiting, Has a Few Tricks Up His Sleeve

Mr. Lasher, the likely successor to Representative Jerry Nadler, has an unusual back story: As a teenager, he was a prodigy who performed magic tricks on national television.Assemblyman Micah Lasher’s proficiency as a child magician led to a book published by Simon and Schuster, “The Magic of Micah Lasher.”