Another Remembrance of Justice Souter
Adding to Mark Movsesian’s tribute to his former boss – a “true gentleman,” Movsesian calls him – I thought I might share a couple of stories about the “gentlemanly” side of Justice Souter. Though I knew Justice Souter hardly at all, he lodged himself in my memory as a result of a couple of encounters.
As many of you may know, there was (and, I trust, still is) a tradition at the Supreme Court that each chamber’s clerks invite each of the other Justices, one at a time, to join them for lunch at some eatery near the Court. The year I clerked (1993-94, for RBG), we ended up having lunch with four of the Justices (Souter, Scalia, Rehnquist, and Thomas), missing out, for one reason or another given everyone’s busy schedules and the ge
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