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David Hackett Souter is a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served from October 1990 to his retirement in June 2009. Appointed by President George H. W. Bush ...
May 1, 2009 · David Souter is many things, but certainly one of them is not a “progressive voice.” To be sure, he was in practice at least one of the most liberal justices, but that is, frankly, not saying much. Souter’s judicial hero, as Jeffrey Toobin describes in his wonderful book, was Warren Court-era conservative John Marshall Harlan. What the ...
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 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 ...
May 1, 2009 · Justice David Souter has made his dislike for Washington well known, and after 19 years in the Supreme Court, the conservative judge who took a liberal stance on many issues returns to his beloved ...
May 4, 2009 · Justice David H. Souter is a conservative man in the old-fashioned sense of the term. A frugal New Englander, he sat in his court office with the lights turned off, writing long-hand on a yellow ...
May 2, 2009 · A look at key Supreme Court cases for Souter. By Carol J. Williams. May 2, 2009 12 AM PT. During an 18-year tenure on the Supreme Court, Justice David H. Souter migrated from conservative to ...
