Supreme Court Justice Souter Steps Down

Justice David Souter, named to the bench by the elder President Bush in 1990, is stepping down, giving President Obama his first opportunity to fill a seat on the highest court in the land. When President Bush named Souter two decades ago, everyone assumed he’d be a reliable conservative. Instead, he became a solid liberal and his story is, in microcosm, an important part of the transformation of American politics in the past twenty years.

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