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...introducing speculation that Souter is homosexual. In fact the question has been dealt with twice: once in 1978, when Souter was about to be appointed a superior court judge, and then again in 1983, before he was named a state supreme court justice by then Governor John Sununu. During law school, he went out with Ellanor Fink, a student at Wheaton College. After he became a superior court judge, he dated Anne Hagstrom, a lawyer in the attorney general's office. She said going out with Souter was like "knowing someone from another century." More recently, Souter has dated...
...bill in the New Hampshire house of representatives in 1981. In response, he wrote a letter to lawmakers opposing the bill because it would have required judges to make "fundamental moral decisions about the interests of other people without any standards to guide the individual judge." Last week, as Sununu was hinting to right-to-lifers that Souter could be trusted, Hager was busy allaying the fears of members of the National Abortion Rights Action League. Hager kept repeating, "He has never associated with pro-life groups. His friends aren't pro-life." His closest political allies and friends -- Republican...
...outspoken champion of their cause, like Federal Appeals Court Judge Edith Jones of Texas, a law-and-order advocate who was the President's second choice. But they take comfort from the fact that Bush's pick has the strong backing of White House chief of staff John Sununu, a former Governor of New Hampshire who appointed Souter to the state supreme court in 1983. Says one senior Republican: "There's been a lot of wink-wink, nod-nod among conservatives who think Souter is Sununu's guy and therefore can be trusted...
...confirmation more difficult." Bush was on Air Force One, preparing to head back to Washington after a few days of politics and fishing out west, when he got the news that Brennan was stepping down. After calling Brennan to accept his resignation, Bush was on the phone again with Sununu, arranging to round up other senior advisers for a White House meeting at 8 a.m. the next...
...that meeting Bush huddled with Sununu, Vice President Dan Quayle, White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray and Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, looking over dossiers on about a dozen possibilities whom the Administration had singled out over the past 18 months. Sununu held back during the discussions, letting Gray and Thornburgh make the case for Souter. After the group had narrowed the list to about eight candidates, Bush asked for further specifics on several of them, then retired to Camp David for the weekend. Sununu went to work behind the scenes on Souter's behalf...