Word: interrupter
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Union Member. Warren's trademark on the bench was to interrupt a counsel's learned argument citing precedent and book with the simple, almost naive question: "Yes, but is it fair?" He believed that social justice was more important than legalisms: "You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important...
COURT: Let me interrupt you for a moment. I want to cast this thing in its perspective...
During the lawyers' presentations, committee members were supposed to interrupt only to ask questions that would clarify a point. In the interest of bipartisan harmony, however, Rodino interpreted that standard broadly. As a result, the sessions often bogged down in seemingly interminable-and sometimes irrelevant-questions or debates. Once the members argued for 90 minutes over whether certain material should be labeled "fact" or "evidence." Finally they decided to call it a "statement of information...
...chief designer for the Hancock project. The architect group urged that the Boston Board of Appeals deny Hancock's petition for zoning variance until the insurance firm could come up with a "modified" plan better suited for the character of Copley Square. The BSA feared that the building would interrupt the serene pattern of the neighboring Trinity Church and the Florentine Boston Public Library...
...Then it's our own fault," I told him. "All this information must be classified." I turned to the other members of the Presidium and suggested, "Comrades, let's interrupt our conference and take our naval officers ashore so that they can familiarize themselves with our missile system. It's important that our commanders know both what we have and what the enemy has. Otherwise, in the event of war, they'll make crude miscalculations and get into big trouble." Either then and there, or later when we returned to Moscow, we decided to stop keeping...