The Judicial-Confirmation Standings as the Senate Returns to Work Unlike Ed, I have read the Harvard commencement speech by retired Justice David Souter that E.J. Dionne praises so highly in his ...

Supreme Court justices do not go easily. With the presidential election nearing a climax, speculation has grown over new ...

This case is usually regarded as an example of party-lines jurisprudence. But this is not quite correct: among the four ...

The outcome of our presidential election — now 11 days away — will reshape the Supreme Court at a pivotal moment in its ...

many of whom still use the battle cry “No More Souters” to describe their approach to judicial appointments — a reference to Justice David Souter, a George H.W. Bush appointee who turned out ...

Johnson’s next move was just as cunning. To dislodge Tom Clark, a center-right justice, Johnson appointed the justice’s son, Ramsey, to lead the Justice Department in 1967, knowing that the senior ...

Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch, and retired Justice David Souter, all graduates of Harvard Law School, attended the law school’s ...

“I know perfectly well I could go out and buy a CD and put it on my iPod,” said Justice David Souter. “But I also know perfectly well that if I can get the music on the iPod without buying ...

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Trump stacked the Supreme Court with justices that favour him during his term, and he could use their power to decide the US ...

Justice David Souter is a modern exception. He retired in 2009 at the relatively youthful age of 69. The erudite New Hampshire bachelor had never quite adapted to the ways of Washington.