David Souter’s death closes a chapter on a Supreme Court justice who prized duty over dogma and humility over hubris.

His jurisprudence has been overshadowed by that of his showier colleagues but was a model of principled restraint.

This article is part of a series on the legacy and jurisprudence of the late Justice David Souter. Michael Mongan currently ...

Readers reflect on the Constitution and the state of American democracy. Also: The Catholic Church sex abuse crisis; Elon ...

David Souter, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who died at 85 on May 8, was sometimes mistakenly thought to have turned ...

No David Souter – who nearly resigned in agony over the court’s nakedly partisan interference to decide the 2000 presidential ...

Opinion: Souter was an intellectual powerhouse who wrote major opinions on issues of religion, First Amendment, privacy, ...

Justice David Souter passed away last week. I clerked for him early in his tenure on the Court, in October Term 1992, and ever since the news, I've been ...

At Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s direction, flags in New Hampshire flew at half staff last week. It was a fitting tribute to David ...

Born on Sept. 17, 1939, in Melrose, Massachusetts, David Hackett Souter was a New Englander through and through, raised in the rural hamlet of Weare, New Hampshire, where his family moved when he ...