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Evaluating Souter: A Strange Judicial Trip, Leaning Left
David Souter came to the supreme court as a man who was expected to make conservatives happy. To put it mildly, it didn't turn out that way. In July 1990,...
Judging the Candidates to Replace Souter
Supreme Court Justice David Souter has long said that he wanted to leave the court and Washington. An intensely private native of small town New Hampshire, he...
David Souter: An 18th Century Man
In this the age of shameless self-promotion, Supreme Court nominee David Souter comes onto the national stage as an oddity. No one knows quite what to make of a...
David Souter; Supreme Confidence
In New Hampshire legal circles, David Souter is renowned for getting to the bottom line faster than any other judge in the state's history. In Washington last...
Law: Mr. Souter Comes to Town
Even before David Souter takes his place as the 105th Justice of the Supreme Court, he has been assured a place in history. Well into the next century, future...
A Blank Slate
If there is anything George Bush dislikes more than eating broccoli, it is taking risks. Thus when he learned on July 20 that Justice William J. Brennan was...
Are Liberal Judges Really 'Judicial Activists'?
"Judicial activism" is the No. 1 conservative talking point on the law these days. Liberal judges, the argument goes, make law, while conservative judges simply...
Yes, Judges Do Legislate
Supreme court confirmation hearings are often dismissed as a kind of ritualized theater that reveals little about the judicial philosophy of nominees. But this...
What's Wrong with Judges Legislating from the Bench?
Supreme Court confirmation hearings are often dismissed as a kind of ritualized theater that reveals little about the judicial philosophy of nominees. But this...
Inside the Moderately Liberal Mind of Sonia Sotomayor
When David Souter was nominated by George H.W. Bush to the Supreme Court, the jurist had so little in the way of a record of past rulings that people called him...
