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Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a Republican appointee who retired from the high court in 2009 after voting ...

Justice David Souter, a single man, could have been the toast of the town in D.C. But that’s not the life he wanted.

Souter was part of a coalition that upheld the essential holding of Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to ...

An intensely private man, former Supreme Court Justice David Souter often sided with liberals despite being nominated by a ...

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

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

Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the ascetic bachelor and New Hampshire Republican who became a favorite of ...

He left conservatives bitterly disappointed with his migration from right to left, leading to the cry of “no more Souters.” ...

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 died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire at the age of 85, the Court announced ...

David Souter, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who died at 85 last Thursday, was sometimes mistakenly thought to have turned into a liberal after being nominated by President George ...