Justice Souter was so disgusted by that ruling, and the partisanship it seemed to show, that he almost resigned.
Before this, when they thought it more likely would be Justice Stevens or Justice Souter who might be retiring, it was mainly women.
"I am willing to bet Justice Souter had never seen a file-sharing application, " said Tushnet, who is also an expert on cyber-age legal issues.
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Now, the process of reviewing and selecting a successor to Justice Souter has been rigorous and comprehensive, not least because of the standard that Justice Souter himself has set with his formidable intellect and fairmindedness and decency.
She spend six years as a trial judge on the U.S. District Court, and would replace Justice Souter as the only justice with experience as a trial judge -- a perspective that would enrich the judgments of the court.
As Justice David Souter described it in the Supreme Court case Campbell v.
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Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the current court term.
In a 6-to-3 decision written by Justice David Souter, the court said that in Miller-El's case, the prosecutors were using a double standard.
At one point, Justice David Souter, the moderate appointed to the court by Bush's father, helpfully gave Tribe a page number.
Justice David Souter observed that in past cases, the government has required repeated CSRT hearings until the desired verdict is achieved.
Genachowski, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David Souter, seems reluctant to assert more authority in the face of this legal decision.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who President Obama nominated last month to replace retiring Justice David Souter, and two other judges heard the case on their federal appeals court last year and sided with the city.
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Stephanie Cutter is leaving the Treasury Department, where she has served as one of Secretary Timothy Geithner's most senior advisers during the financial crisis, to be the point person for mobilizing public support for Obama's pick to replace retiring Justice David Souter, three senior administration officials said.
Mr Feldman, a Harvard Law School professor who once clerked for a recently retired justice, David Souter, clearly enjoys the intellectual sport of dissecting opinions coming out of the court.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist and justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Clarence Thomas agreed with O'Connor.
As the senior Justice in the minority, John Paul Stevens assigned the main dissent to Souter, who was working on the opinion when he announced his departure, on April 30th.
Souter to become the second woman on the court and only the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court.
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Souter announced his resignation, giving President Barack Obama his first chance to nominate a Justice to the Court.
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