Advertisement |
It's safe to say that the president is in the position to get a mainstream liberal confirmed to the court fairly easily
Obama Court choice could sail to approval May 02, 2009
If the school official's thought process was 'I'd rather have a kid embarrassed rather than some other kid dead,' isn't that reasonable under the Fourth Amendment
High court weighs school strip-searches Apr 21, 2009
Whether the outcome should be any different when the burden is properly placed on the employer is best left to that court in the first instance
Supreme Court ruling favors older workers Jun 20, 2008
For the better part of two centuries states and their political subdivisions have issued bonds for public purposes, and for nearly half that time some states have exempted interest on their own bonds from their state income taxes
Justices uphold municipal bond tax breaks May 19, 2008
At the end of the day the effect is ... a massive amount of money going to religious schools here
High court leans toward vouchers Feb 20, 2002
David Hackett Souter ( /ˈsuːtər/; born September 17, 1939) served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1990 until his retirement on June 29, 2009. Appointed by President George H. W. Bush to fill the seat vacated by William J. Brennan, Jr., Souter was the only Justice with extensive prior court experience outside of a federal appeals court, having served as a prosecutor, a state's attorney general, and as a judge on state trial and appellate courts. Souter sat on both the Rehnquist and Roberts courts, and was generally regarded as a liberal; others, however, felt he did not fit squarely into any ideological camp. Following Souter's retirement announcement, President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor as his successor.
Souter was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, on September 17, 1939, the only child of Joseph Alexander Souter (1904–1976) and Helen Adams Hackett Souter (1907–1995). At age 11, he moved with his family to their farm in Weare, New Hampshire.
Souter attended Concord High School in New Hampshire and went on to Harvard College, concentrating in philosophy and writing a senior thesis on the legal positivism of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In 1961, he graduated from Harvard magna cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and earned an M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1963. He then entered Harvard Law School, graduating in 1966.