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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.