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This idea-hostile environment reduced President Bush to nominating David H. Souter '61, a judge whose memory should be measured in volumes but whose federal career could be measured in hours. The painful memory of Bork's defeat on issues of substance coupled with George Bush's apparent lack of backbone bestowed upon this country a relatively unknown and possibly unqualified nominee for the highest court in the country--a position for which there is no recall...
While it is possible that George Bush though Souter was the most qualified person for the job-his intelligent, moderate jurisprudence lends credibility to this theory-it is far more likely that he sought one of the least well-known conservative judges in the land so he could slip a right-wing Justice by the politicized den of vipers that await any nominee who enters the Senate caucus room...
...June, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy and David Souter found that waiting periods and counseling--aspects of the Mississippi law that could be considered "undue burdens"--were not "undue burdens" for expectant mothers in Pennsylvania. In that case, "undue burden" was used to argue in favor of abortion limits. Now it is used to defend greater access to abortions in Guam. Such arbitrary use of this principle will not produce a coherent definition of legalized abortion in this country...
Brauneis clerked with Boston's First Circuit Appeals Court before attaining his current position as a clerk for Justice David H. Souter...
...history. As in the abortion ruling last week, he has linked up with the court's hard-line conservatives, , Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. These three have often combined with Byron White and three more moderate conservatives, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter, thus giving the court a conservative majority in most important cases last term...