But perhaps Souter’s biggest impact was less on any area of the law or specific cases than on the transformation of Supreme Court nominations and the vetting of would-be justices. As Greenhouse ...

His nomination came at a pivotal time in ... interpretation are deemed to be “Souters.” So great was Souter’s psychological impact on legal conservatives that they restructured their ...

Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a Republican appointee who retired from the high court in 2009 after voting ...

For a while, the long tradition of treating judicial nominations ... specific impact on the Court and on constitutional law during 18 momentous years at the Supreme Court, David Souter was in ...

Former Supreme Court Associate Justice David H. Souter ’61 died earlier this month at his home in New Hampshire. He was 85.

Souter’s nomination was expected to bring about a substantial shift to the right, but he quickly established himself as an independent force on the Court. “Souter was confirmed October 2 ...

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 ...

Former Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter, who also served as New Hampshire attorney general and an associate justice on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, has died. Souter, 85 ...

It did not take conservatives long to regret Souter’s nomination. After less than two years on the bench, he helped orchestrate a significant opinion that upheld the central tenet of Roe v.