Word: souter
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Even before David Souter takes his place as the 105th Justice of the Supreme Court, he has been assured a place in history. Well into the next century, future court nominees are certain to pore over videotapes of his Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, searching for inspiration on how to win easy confirmation. Souter's low-key, courteous performance was so skillful that the final 90-to-9 vote for his confirmation on the Senate floor last week sparked little emotional debate. Kate Michelman, director of the National Abortion Rights Action League, simply called the Senate vote a "dangerous leap...
...fact was that Senators and the American public seemed as impressed with Souter's intelligence as they were with his image as a shy, decent man who likes old cars, black-and-white television sets and the Boston Red Sox. During the confirmation hearings, Souter, 51, slept on an extra bed at the apartment of his mentor, New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman; soon he will settle into a modest one-bedroom apartment that the Justice-to-be found, with Rudman's help, within walking distance of the court. Souter's few sticks of furniture and more numerous stacks of books...
Life surely will change for Souter once he officially dons his robe -- the same one he wore as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge in Boston -- for the first time, one week into the court's new term. The Washington Post has already named him the town's leading bachelor, while admitting that he is not exactly "your standard hunka hunka burning love." In an effort to help him with the local ladies, the Post printed the Supreme Court's telephone number...
...Americans who has the last word on their constitutional rights, and they will usually point to the U.S. Supreme Court. But last week, as David Souter appeared certain to win Senate confirmation of his seat on the nation's highest bench after a 13-to-1 vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee, some of the most important pitched battles of American jurisprudence were being fought far away from Washington, in the supreme court houses of the 50 states. Despite the success of the Reagan and Bush administrations at placing hundreds of conservative nominees on federal benches, a growing number...
...group, which also contained representatives of socialist and gay and lesbian organizations, marched to Copley Square, where it was addressed by the president of the Boston chapter of NOW, Ellen Convisser. Convisser criticized the appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court of David H. Souter '61, calling it a "a virtual rollback of women's rights...