Word: souter
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...ONLY SOUTER SEEMS PERSUADED
Harvard Law School students last night debated the constitutionality of juvenile curfews before Supreme Court Justice David Souter in the annual Ames Moot Court competition. The contest draws some of the country’s prominent legal minds to judge the final round. Along with Justice Souter, Emilio Garza of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Ilana Diamond Rovner for the Seventh Circuit were on the bench this year. Last night’s arguments culminated a year of effort by two teams of six students, who won the opportunity to compete after defeating several...
Like Harriet Miers, U.S. Supreme Court nominee DAVID SOUTER was seen as an enigma when he was introduced to the nation...
...this the age of shameless self-promotion, Supreme Court nominee David Souter comes onto the national stage as an oddity. No one knows quite what to make of a man who has a life, not a life-style, who lives modestly, works hard, spends inconspicuously, attends church, enjoys solitude, honors his mother, and helps his neighbors. While part of being a public official these days is vying for an appearance on Nightline, Souter is extremely publicity shy, pursuing a life of quiet introspection ... By choosing someone so hard to pigeonhole, indeed, someone from another era, [President George H.W.] Bush...
...anger and ironies wrap around each other. By picking someone he knew so well, Bush hoped to avoid making the kind of miscalculation his father had made with David Souter, yet now he stands accused of doing just that. And by avoiding a costly fight with the left, Bush gets one with the right. Conservatives find themselves struggling with whether they really want to whack their President when he's already down and go on the record opposing a devout Evangelical whom he trusts completely. Fight him and lose, and they prove how powerless they are to affect much...