Word: souter
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...most days Washington is far better at dismantling people and purposes than it is at building them up. So it should have been no surprise that at the close of David Souter week, the city seemed on the way to the ultimate absurdity: criticizing the Supreme Court nominee because there was not much about him to criticize...
...fire storm of babble that followed Souter's nomination was larger than even the White House scouts had predicted, yet it seemed to singe everybody but the nominee. His handlers stashed the gray-suited Souter in the shadowy Room 468 of the Old Executive Office Building, then trotted him around the Senate for get-acquainted handshakes and dined him in the White House mess, both stern tests of his stomach...
...cleanup crew that followed in Souter's wake to glean cloakroom prattle heard him compared to Calvin Coolidge and called a "mousy little guy." Bush can live with that. Souter is a Harvard-Phi Beta Kappa-Rhodes scholar mouse...
...knows finally in what direction that remarkable mind of Souter's might take him. But these nomination struggles may be evolving a new strain of Justices: bland men and women who will seldom depart from the familiar ruts worn by the politicians who elevated them to the court...
...David Souter's views on major constitutional issues -- especially abortion --are largely unknown. He could be a Stealth candidate whom George Bush can slip past the Senate. -- The bookish nominee has a deep respect for tradition. Does he have a heart...