Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the court said. He was 85 years old. Souter was nominated in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush. He was succeeded ...

Justice David Souter, who spent nearly 20 years on the Supreme Court, has died. Souter was a critical figure in several key battles in the court over issues like abortion and the 2000 presidential ...

Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who died last week at age 85, will probably not be remembered as the author of any truly momentous majority opinions, because he never really wrote any of those.

Born on Sept. 17, 1939, in Melrose, Massachusetts, David Hackett Souter was a New Englander through and through, raised in the rural hamlet of Weare, New Hampshire, where his family moved when he was ...

FILE - David Souter, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, is shown, Dec. 1993. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the ascetic ...

David Souter, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who retired at the age of 69 and died this week at 85, was viewed by liberals as a man of conservative temperament, if not necessarily conservative ...

Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who died nearly two months ago, on May 8, has been widely remembered as an eccentric recluse who retired early from the U.S. Supreme Court to return to his ...

GOP appointee became an independent thinker on and off the Supreme Court. May 2, 2009— -- Supreme Court Justice David Souter may be little known outside his small circle of friends -- he shies ...

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No cause of death was given in the court's statement. Souter was appointed to the high court in 1990 by his fellow Republican, President George H.W. Bush, and retired in 2009. Souter, while serving on ...

Justice David Souter, who spent nearly 20 years on the Supreme Court, has died. Souter was a critical figure in several key battles in the court over issues like abortion and the 2000 presidential ...