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Justice Souter's Class

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Linda Greenhouse's latest post on the New York Times Opinionator blog.  LINK  Justice David H. Souter left the Supreme Court nearly a year ago without really saying goodbye. There were no pre-retirement interviews of the sort that Justice John Paul Stevens gave to several journalists this spring. There were no farewell press conferences like those that several justices who retired during the 1980?s and 1990?s were willing to endure for the sake of placing their own codas on their Supreme Court careers. And since Justice Souter has decided to keep his papers closed to the public for 50 years, few people in a position actually to remember his Supreme Court tenure (1990-2009) will be able to explore the archive and learn what conclusions this most private of public figures drew from his part in two decades of profound debate about the role of the court and the meaning of the Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 04, 2010 (boomark / email).