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Nonilex<p>[Not from the NYT article, still my <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> 🧵]</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a> planned his retirement from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> to occur during a Democratic presidency as he was keenly aware of Republican designs on turning the court into a political arm.</p><p>NPR 2009:<br>Factors in his decision no doubt include the election of President <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a>, who would be more likely to appoint a successor attuned to the principles Souter has followed as a moderate-to-liberal member of the court's more liberal bloc over the past 2 decades.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…the results of the 1993-94 term showed that he &amp; his 3 most regular allies—Blackmun, Stevens &amp; Ginsburg, who had been together in 11 of the year's 14 5-4 cases—had been the losing foursome in 8 of those 11, prevailing only in 3 criminal cases where they were joined by Kennedy. And if one looked at the 35 cases where Blackmun &amp; Rehnquist had come out on opposite sides, perhaps <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a>'s "emerging liberal streak" was no exaggeration at all…<br>Right-wing Court watchers rued Souter's evolution.<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But in the following year, as Kennedy reverted to greater agreement w/the Chief Justice, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a> found himself on the minority side of far more split decisions.</p><p>…The 1992-93 decline of the Souter-O'Connor-Kennedy trio led some observers to highlight how Kennedy had moved back rightward, but Paul Barrett of WSJ contended that actually the "most striking development" was Souter's "emerging <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberal</span></a> streak."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JudicialIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…[A] close friend, echoing how Casey "wasn't a surprise," especially given "David's respect for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/precedent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>precedent</span></a>," stressed that people did not appreciate how "David's a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judicial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judicial</span></a> conservative, NOT a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> conservative.”…</p><p>Neither the 1992-93 or 1993-94 terms would prove as significant as 1991-92. The most striking statistic of 1991-92, as Casey exemplified, was the degree to which Anthony Kennedy had shifted away from Rehnquist &amp; toward <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a> &amp; O'Connor.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Harry Blackmun's concurrence accurately termed the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a>-O'Connor-Kennedy joint opinion "an act of personal courage &amp; constitutional principle," &amp; Blackmun added that "what has happened today should serve as a model for future Justices &amp; a warning to all who have tried to turn this Court into yet another <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> branch."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JudicialIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a> closed by reiterating that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Casey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Casey</span></a>, &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a>, were about far more than simply <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a>:<br>“A decision to overrule Roe's essential holding under the existing circumstances would address error, if error there was,at the cost of both profound &amp; unnecessary damage to the Court's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legitimacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legitimacy</span></a>, &amp; to the Nation's commitment to the rule of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>. It is therefore imperative to adhere to the essence of Roe's original decision, &amp; we do so today."<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Independence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Then <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a> moved to the core of his argument, 2 paragraphs that rank among the most memorable lines ever authored by an American <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jurist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jurist</span></a>:</p><p>"Where, in the performance of its judicial duties, the Court decides a case in such a way as to resolve the sort of intensely divisive controversy reflected in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a> &amp; those rare, comparable cases, its decision has a dimension that the resolution of the normal case does not carry.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JudicialIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>That background had not been fully understood by the commentators &amp; Senators who had debated what his 1990 nomination meant for the future of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a> &amp; other fundamental rights. If they had, what was now happening in Casey would not have come as a surprise.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a>'s analysis reflected a realism not always found in high court pronouncements:</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JudicialIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>When announcing decisions from the bench, Justices usually offer a summary or read brief excerpts. On this morning, however, each of the three—first O'Connor, then Kennedy and finally <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a>—orally delivered major portions of the trio opinion. Journalists quickly realized they were witnessing an unprecedented event.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Independence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Not since the famous 1958 Little Rock school desegregation case of Cooper v. Aaron, when all 9 Justices signed a ringing reaffirmation of Brown v. Board of Education, had any <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> opinion been presented to the American people as formally authored by more than one Justice. But now, symbolically invoking the powerful precedent of Cooper, Justices O'Connor, Kennedy &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a> issued their plurality decision in Casey as an explicit trio opinion.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In early June, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a>, O'Connor &amp; Kennedy distributed to their colleagues initial copies of their joint opinion. As David Savage later wrote in The Los Angeles Times: "Rehnquist &amp; Scalia were stunned. So, too, was Blackmun." And so, on Monday morning, June 29, 1992, the final day of the term, commentators were unprepared for the result in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PlannedParenthoodVCasey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlannedParenthoodVCasey</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RoeVWade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoeVWade</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JudicialIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
Flipboard News Desk<p>Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who often disappointed conservatives, dies at age 85.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@CBSNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CBSNews</span></a></span> has an obituary: <a href="https://flip.it/YYHBYm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/YYHBYm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But while 7 Justices indicated that they would uphold most of the PA restrictions, only 4—Rehnquist, White, Scalia &amp; Thomas—wanted to explicitly vitiate <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a>. O'Connor, Kennedy &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Souter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Souter</span></a>, however, all believed the restrictions could be upheld at the same time that Roe was left standing. While Rehnquist himself undertook the drafting of Casey's apparent majority opinion, Kennedy's surprising stance gave Souter &amp; O'Connor the opening toward an intermediate outcome….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
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