His jurisprudence has been overshadowed by that of his showier colleagues but was a model of principled restraint.

Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1990 by Republican President George H.W. Bush, Souter quickly emerged as a consistent ...

I knew that Justice David Souter—who died last week at 85—was different from the moment I first met him. Federal judges dream of ascending to the highest court in the land, senators picture themselves ...

Justice David H. Souter, who died last week, said in 2012 that public ignorance of the Constitution could lead to the rise of ...

No more Souters” was a right-wing battle cry for years. It led to the intense ideological vetting that gave us today’s ...

Months or even years after recovering from their initial infections, many COVID survivors still suffer from a host of lingering illnesses. Their thinking is sometimes foggy. They have memory deficits ...

The late justice was picked to be a reliable conservative vote on the court. But he drifted left—and the right has never ...

More than any decision he authored, the justice’s legacy was how he surprised legal conservatives, galvanizing a movement to ...