How Souter’s ‘Stealth Liberalism’ Reshaped the Supreme Court

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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 views. New York Times legal columnist Linda Greenhouse presented this take on Souter succinctly:

Justice Souter portrayed himself as he was: a judge of basically conservative instincts who took as his role model Justice John Marshall Harlan II, a distinguished...