David Souter was my first boss, during the 1987-88 term of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, where I was privileged to serve as one of his two law clerks shortly before he was elevated to the United States Supreme Court. It became clear early on that “David,” which he insisted my co-clerk and I call him after the clerkship, was special, if not unique, both as a jurist and as a person. Putting aside his indisputable brilliance and astonishing breadth of legal and historical knowledge, he was kind, humble, incredibly hard-working, and utterly decent.
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Read “Justice Souter’s Book List” by Mathew S. Rosengart, authored for SCOTUSblog.