Excessive drinking also impairs sensation and the judgment that would ordinarily tell a person that it is time to come in from the cold.
Although similar to an air traffic control tower, the Vessel Traffic Center has a crucial difference: it cannot ordinarily tell vessels what to do.
But on Friday Justice Obus did give an odd, conditional Allen charge, telling the jury at some length what he would ordinarily tell a deadlocked jury that was still deliberating.
"Of course, we don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed," Comey wrote.
By taking up the question, the justices appear to be injecting themselves into the kind of struggle between two branches of state government that the court's institutional instincts ordinarily tell it to avoid at all costs.
He wrote: Of course, we don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed.
Comey explained his actions more fully in an e-mail to F.B.I. staff: Of course, we don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed.
In the letter, which was obtained by the Washington Post, he acknowledged, "Of course, we don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed.
"Of course, we don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations," he wrote in a letter to F.B.I. employees on Friday, "but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed.
"Of course, we don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed," Comey wrote in an email to bureau employees Friday.
