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Souter was nominated to the Supreme Court without a significant "paper trail" but was expected to be a conservative justice. Within a few years of his appointment, Souter moved towards the ideological center. He eventually came to vote reliably with the Court's liberal wing.
May 4, 2009 · Though a former prosecutor and state judge in New Hampshire, Souter was never a conservative activist or a cultural warrior, Roosevelt said. He was, however, a man of tradition.
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Jul 9, 2018 · While Souter voted along generally conservative lines in his first year on the bench, he soon began to drift left. By 1992, he was part of the majority in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that ...
Jan 1, 2010 · Last spring, David Hackett Souter ’66—the U.S. Supreme Court’s 105th justice—announced his retirement and stepped down at the end of the term. The Bulletin asked four alumni who had firsthand experience with the justice for their reflections. Noah Feldman: The Liberalism of the Burkean Conservative.
Aug 6, 1990 · Souter’s belief system mirrors that of an aunt, a Simmons College professor and Cambridge dowager who swam Lake Winnipesaukee in her 70s, was conservative socially and politically but liberal...
The Senate confirmed Souter on October 2 in a 90-9 vote, and he took the judicial oath a week later. Souter was expected to be a staunch conservative when he was appointed, but this prediction proved inaccurate. Almost from the outset, he took a moderate or even left-leaning stance on several key issues.
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Souter’s judicial record in New Hampshire indicated that he would be ideologically compatible with the conservative justices appointed by Bush’s predecessor, President Ronald Reagan. During his early tenure on the court, however, Souter gradually emerged as a moderate liberal, routinely aligning himself with more liberal members of the ...
