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...Souter, Justice David •imminent retirement...
Supreme Court Justice David Souter has long said that he wanted to leave the court and Washington. An intensely private native of small town New Hampshire, he has never warmed to the nation's capital, socializing infrequently and focusing his energies on work and jogging after hours. While he has told many that he would stay on "for the duration," most understood that to mean the tenure of Republican control in the White House. With Obama's victory last November, Souter's long "duration" was over...
...that Souter has made the decision to leave the court when it finishes its term in June, Washington will turn its attention to whom Obama might nominate to replace him. Souter's reliably liberal stand on issues means that the President's choice won't change the balance of the court on any of the high-profile social issues it handles, like abortion, civil rights or the death penalty. But it does present the President with both political opportunities and challenges, as well as a test of what is thought to be his center-left judicial outlook...
Feldman, who was a Supreme Court clerk for Souter, addressed the second case, Bartlett v. Strickland, which involves the legislative allocation of districts...
...great things about Justice Souter is that he doesn’t lend himself easily to trait categorizations,” Amestoy said...