Souter’s influence still resonating 16 years after he left the Supreme Court

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Loading... Coming up on today's show: Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law, previews the end of the Supreme Court term, plus remembers the late Justice Souter. Richard Buery, CEO of Robin Hood and chair of the Charter Revision Commission convened by Mayor Adams, talks about the commission's preliminary report, including a possible change to NYC's primary elections. John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker an…

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David Souter, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who retired at the age of 69 and died this week at 85, was viewed by liberals as a man of conservative temperament, if not necessarily conservative views.

Souter’s influence still resonating 16 years after he left the Supreme Court

Justice David Souter, touted as a steadfast conservative for the Supreme Court in 1990, soon revealed himself as the opposite.

Without David Souter, the Federalist Society might’ve remained on the fringe

More than any decision he authored, Souter’s legacy was how he surprised legal conservatives, galvanizing a movement to prevent the nomination of federal jurists like him.

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The late justice was picked to be a reliable conservative vote on the court. But he drifted left—and the right has never forgotten it.