Then Senator Lodge came forward and pounded hard with his gavel, calling for order.
He banged the gavel again, harder.
Throughout American history, speakers have pounded their gavels so hard in search of order that — metaphor alert!
"The gavel comes down hard on Attorney General Jeff Sessions," says Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
"The gavel comes down hard on Attorney General Jeff Sessions," says Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Watch as the moderates on their team, who are aware of the ticking clocks, aware of the crews who are suffering, and the cost to their industry, try to slowly wrestle the gavel away from the hard-liners.
Revesz, D-PAK's "judge," rapped his gavel (a yellow Magic Marker, actually) hard on the kitchen table.
In other words, if no gavel is involved, it will probably be hard to prove bribery, after this ruling.
Instead, according to the opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, an official act "must involve a formal exercise of governmental power that is similar in nature to a lawsuit before a court, a determination before an agency, or a hearing before a committee". In other words, if no gavel is involved, it will probably be hard to prove bribery, after this ruling.
Do you know how brave you have to be to put something out there knowing that someone could come with the gavel and say, "no, overruled!" It's very hard to mount a Broadway show.
