This article is part of a series on the legacy and jurisprudence of the late Justice David Souter. Charles Barzun is a ...

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David Souter, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who died at 85 on May 8, was sometimes mistakenly thought to have turned ...

Opinion: Former Souter clerk Kermit Roosevelt writes that Justice Souter avoided zingers and didn't adopt a theory like ...

On the high court from 1990 to 2009, he saw his role as one of quiet resistance against excess and dramatic change.

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Souter was never supposed to be a hard-right ideologue. That distinction would go to Bush’s next appointment, Clarence Thomas ...

Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a low-key New England Republican who was an unexpectedly liberal voice in his 18 ...

David Souter, the former US Supreme Court Justice whose unexpected liberal rulings confounded conservative expectations, died ...

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a lifelong public servant, judicial moderate and advocate ... emphasizing his respect for precedent and the philosophy of "originalism," which ...