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 ...

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. Wade, that ...

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 ...

The tenure of the late Justice David H. Souter on the Supreme Court helped shape the modern era of judicial confirmations.

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 ...

WASHINGTON >> Bookish and reclusive jurist David Souter, who joined the U.S. Supreme Court as a supposed conservative ...

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 ...

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.