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Geoff Stone on Justice Souter

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I want to highlight University of Chicago Law prof Geoffrey Stone's "David Souter," at Huffington Post.  Here are two excerpts from this must-read:David Souter took the seat previously held by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., one of the liberal lions of the Warren Court. Souter and Brennan formed a close and even touching friendship, and Brennan, ever the persuader, sought to share with his successor his own powerful vision of the unique responsibilities of the Supreme Court and the fundamental role of constitutional law in the American system of government. We may never know what influence Brennan, then in his eighties, may have had on Justice Souter. What we do know is that Souter soon showed himself to be not the anticipated right-wing ideologue, but rather a thoughtful, moderate, independent thinker who sought to discern the central meaning of the Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 01, 2009 (boomark / email).