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After graduating, Souter returned home to Weare, N.H., and took a job at Orr & Reno, a Concord law firm. But he was not happy in private practice. In 1968 he took the turn in the road that would eventually land him in the White House chatting with the President, by joining the New Hampshire attorney general's staff. Shortly after Warren Rudman became state attorney general in 1970, he plucked Souter from a group of assistants to become his top aide. The thoroughly scholarly Souter soon became the perfect complement to the gregarious, politically wired Rudman. The two, along with...
...Rudman resigned as attorney general and four years later ran for a Senate seat. Thomson reluctantly went along with Rudman's advice to appoint Souter to the job. Over the next two years Souter became involved in several controversial cases, largely at Thomson's behest. In 1978 Souter's staff defended the Governor in a suit to prevent him from lowering the American and state flags over state buildings on Good Friday. In another Thomson crusade, Souter's staff unsuccessfully defended the state's attempts to prosecute residents who for religious reasons covered up the state motto -- "Live Free...
...those cases, Souter seems to have been acting as a lawyer putting forth the best argument he could on behalf of his client. But friends still talk | about the zeal Souter brought to one of the few cases he personally argued as attorney general: whether the state or the Federal Government had jurisdiction over Lake Winnipesaukee. Combining his love of New Hampshire with his passion for history, Souter headed off to museums and historical societies to dredge up scraps of information. He spent weeks with ancient maps spread out over his office, scanning each meticulously to ferret out tiny differences...
...there are few dog-eared tomes from a hundred years ago to consult on the divisive issues of today. Liberals are worried that just as Souter spurns gold chains and Club Med vacations, he will also eschew the "penumbras" emanating from the Constitution that activist judges have used to find heretofore unknown protections -- like the guarantee of privacy, which underlies Roe v. Wade's right to abortion. New Hampshire Governor Judd Gregg predicts that "Souter won't graft current ideas or social concerns onto constitutional law." In a dissent he wrote in 1986, Souter said "the court's interpretive task...
...this kind of on-one-hand, on-the-other-hand aspect of Souter's behavior that has thrown the likely combatants over a new Justice into disarray. Souter gave a commencement address at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, N.H., in 1976 in which he called affirmative-action rules "affirmative discrimination" and said the government has no place meddling in such initiatives. He flew across the state by helicopter to make ; sure protesters who were arrested for demonstrating against the Seabrook nuclear power plant were forced to serve actual jail terms rather than suspended sentences. He tends to rule in favor...