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

Former Justice David Souter’s perceived turn to the “left” changed the future of Supreme Court nominations, with ...

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

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

Souter, who died last week ... Trump, as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination for the first time, said something strikingly similar: “Nobody knows the system better than me ...

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 US Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who also served as NH attorney general and an associate justice on the NH ...

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.