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Oct 24, 2016 · Surprisingly, over the past few days, excerpts of a public conversation I held four years ago with retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter in Concord, New Hampshire, have been circulating on ...
Jan 28, 2013 · He was sworn in on October 9, 1990. Family: David Hackett Souter was born on September 17, 1939 in Melrose, Massachusetts to Joseph Alexander and Helen Adams Hackett Souter. His "home" where he spent many summers with his maternal grandparents is in Weare, New Hampshire. Education: Souter attended a local public school where he excelled and ...
David Hackett Souter Recent Decisions by Justice Souter Biographical Data Birth, Residence, and Family Born September 17, 1939 in Melrose, Massachusetts, son of Joseph Alexander and Helen Adams Hackett Souter. Education
Sep 11, 2011 · Or as "The honorable David H. Souter '61, ... But now he is free to fulfill what he calls “an interrupted education,” and the syllabus is daunting. “The menu is mostly history: the classical ...
David Souter. David Hackett Souter ( / ˈsuːtər /; born September 17, 1939) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served from October 1990 until his retirement in June 2009. [2] Appointed by President George H. W. Bush to fill the seat left by William J. Brennan, Jr., Souter sat on both the Rehnquist and ...
May 14, 2024 · Early Years. Souter was born on September 17, 1939 in Melrose, Massachusetts, but spent most of his childhood in New Hampshire. Souter attended Harvard College where he studied philosophy, writing his senior thesis on the legal positivism of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1961.
May 1, 2009 · One of the reasons that the Supreme Court will miss David Souter is that he possesses a gift that we seek but rarely find in a judge – the ability to step outside the bounds of his experience. Nowhere is this more evident than in Justice Souter's astute take on the fraught relationship between race and politics, a topic that has dominated the ...
