President George H.W. Bush nominated Souter to the Supreme Court in 1990. He was confirmed the same year, served 19 years on ...

Born on Sept. 17, 1939, in Melrose, Massachusetts, David Hackett Souter was a New Englander through and through, raised in the rural hamlet of Weare, New Hampshire, where his family moved when he ...

My clerkship interview with David Souter was in the winter of 2002. In his chambers, amid piles of hardbound books, we could have been in the nineteenth century. I came girded for questions on ...

Justice David Souter passed away last week. I clerked for him early in his tenure on the Court, in October Term 1992, and ever since the news, I've been thinking about him—talking with friends ...

This week, the US Supreme Court announced the passing of Justice David Souter, who served on the Court from 1990 to 2009, where he wrote landmark opinions on a wide range of issues, including the ...

Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who died last week at age 85, will probably not be remembered as the author of any truly momentous majority opinions, because he never really wrote any of those.

Justice David Souter, touted as a steadfast conservative for the Supreme Court in 1990, soon revealed himself as the opposite. He valued constitutional privacy, individual equality and the ...

David Souter, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who retired at the age of 69 and died this week at 85, was viewed by liberals as a man of conservative temperament, if not necessarily ...

Souter, only the second Supreme Court justice from New Hampshire, died Thursday at age 85. He was nominated to the high court by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 on the recommendation of his ...

And Souter was confirmed 90-9, but he quickly angered some of his Republican backers. In 1992's Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Souter joined the court's moderates to uphold abortion rights nationwide.

Souter works with a group to promote civics education in New Hampshire schools in 2009. In a break with today’s norms, Souter retired from the Supreme Court that year, seeking a return to his ...

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter died at his home in New Hampshire yesterday. He was 85. In a statement today, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote this of Souter - he brought uncommon ...