David H Souter, former supreme court justice, dies

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/david-souter-dead.html

David H. Souter, Republican Justice Who Allied With Court’s Liberal Wing, Dies at 85
He left conservatives bitterly disappointed with his migration from right to left, leading to the cry of “no more Souters.”


May 9, 2025
Updated 11:26 a.m. ET
David H. Souter, a New Hampshire Republican who was named to the Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush and who over 19 years on that bench became a mainstay of the court’s shrinking liberal wing, died on Thursday at his home in New Hampshire. He was 85.

His death was announced on Friday morning by the Supreme Court, which did not cite a cause, saying only that he had died “peacefully.”

A shy man who never married and who much preferred an evening alone with a good book to a night in the company of Washington insiders, Justice Souter retired at the unusually young age of 69 to return to his beloved home state. His retirement at the end of the court’s 2008-09 term gave President Barack Obama a Supreme Court vacancy in the opening months of his presidency. The president named Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the seat