David Souter
David Hackett Souter is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served from October 1990 to his retirement in June 2009. The National Organization for Women opposed Souter’s nomination and held a rally outside the Senate during his confirmation hearings on July 25, 1990.
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David Hackett Souter is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served from October 1990 to his retirement in June 2009. Souter grew up in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and attended Harvard College; Magdalen College, Oxford; and Harvard Law School. After briefly working in private practice, Souter moved to public service. He has served as a prosecutor, in the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office, as the Attorney General of New Hampshire, and as an Associate Justice. He also served briefly as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In mid-2009, after Democrat Barack Obama took office as U. S. president, Souteter announced his retirement from the Court. He was succeeded by Sonia Sotomayor, who has continued to hear cases by designation at the circuit court level. The National Organization for Women opposed Souter’s nomination and held a rally outside the Senate during his confirmation hearings on July 25, 1990. The president of NOW, Molly Molly Yard, testified that Souter would also opposed freedom for women in this country and that he did not know Souter’s stances on abortion, affirmative action, or other issues. The Senate confirmed Souter by unanimous consent of the Senate on April 27, 1990, and he was confirmed to his seat on the Court in October 1990. He eventually came to vote reliably with the Court’s liberal wing and sat on both the Rehnquist and the Roberts Courts. He is the father of former New Hampshire Governor John H.
Sununu, who was instrumental in his nomination and confirmation. He had been on President Reagan’s short list of nominees for Supreme Court seat that eventually went to Anthony Kennedy. He previously served as the Chief of Staff to New Hampshire Gov. Warren Rudman, who had since been elected to the U S. Senate, and was a close friend of President Bush’s. The Souter family moved to Weare, New Hampshire at the age of 11. He graduated second in his class from Concord High School in 1957. He then attended Harvard University, graduating in 1961 with an A. B. magna cum laude in philosophy and writing a senior thesis on the legal positivism of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. In 1968, after two years as an associate at the law firm of Orr & Reno in Concord,. Souter realized he disliked private practice and began his career in public service by accepting a position as an Assistant Attorney General. In 1971, he was selected to be the Deputy Attorney General in New Hampshire. In 1978, with the support of his friend Rudman, Souter was named an Associate justice of the Superior Court of New. Hampshire. With four years of trial court experience, Souters was appointed to the New. NH Supreme Court as anociate Justice in 1983. In 1984, he became an AssociateJustice of the New New Hampshire Supreme Court. In 1985, he served as an Associate Justice on the New York State Supreme Court, where he was noted for his tough sentencing.
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