Former #SCOTUS Justice #DavidSouter died on Thursday at his New Hampshire home, the court said in a statement on Friday. He was 85.
#law #judiciary #JudicialIndependence #nonpartisan
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-supreme-court-justice-souter-dies-court-says-2025-05-09/
🧵Excerpts from a beautiful piece written in the NYT by David J. Garrow in 1994 on Souter’s remarkable contribution in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in which the #SupremeCourt upheld the right to #abortion as established by #RoeVWade: