May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among ...

A couple of years ago, this paper ran an appreciation I had written about former Supreme Court Justice David Souter. It was ...

Thank you, Justice Souter. On the same day that John Swope died in Concord, Raymond Truncellito died in Manchester. Ray, as ...

By historical standards, Souter was viewed as a moderate conservative jurist, committed to precedent and the rule of law. Like Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose pragmatism he admired, Souter prized ...

David H. Souter, who died on May 8 at 85, was the anti-celebrity. He came to Washington to serve almost 20 years on the ...

David Souter, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who died at 85 last Thursday, was sometimes mistakenly thought to have ...

Many Americans may have missed this week the passing of Justice David Souter, who retired from the Supreme Court in 2009, after a distinguished 20-year career on the nation’s High ...

A celebrity, said historian Daniel Boorstin, is someone known for his or her well-knownness. David H. Souter, who died on May ...

This article is part of a series on the legacy and jurisprudence of the late Justice David Souter. Charles Barzun is a ...

Former Supreme Court Associate Justice David H. Souter ’61 died earlier this month at his home in New Hampshire. He was 85.

In a world of grandstanding and gavels, David Souter was a whisper — a Granite State recluse who slipped onto the Supreme Court in 1990 like a shadow through a side door, only to leave an indelible ...

Born on Sept. 17, 1939, in Melrose, Massachusetts, David Hackett Souter was a New Englander through and through, raised in the rural hamlet of Weare, New Hampshire, where his family moved when he ...