David H. Souter & Death Penalty Newsletter
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Justice Breyer sounds alarm over the Supreme Court's direction
18 Mar 2024 12:03 GMT
… about the direction of the Supreme Court.
Sign up for The Morning … different Republican appointees — Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter and Anthony Kennedy … the death penalty, he did not adopt the practice of some earlier justices …
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Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died
01 Dec 2023 16:28 GMT
… Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice.”
Justice O’Connor’s … 1988 opinion by Justice O’Connor in a death penalty case, “was not … .
Three years later, Justice O’Connor joined with Justices David Souter and Kennedy in …
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Supreme Court avoided disaster when a chunk of marble fell in a courtyard used by justices
17 Oct 2023 22:33 GMT
… Supreme Court cases and Chief Justices of the time
Landmark Supreme Court cases and Chief Justices …
Roper v. Simmons
- Topic: death penalty for minors
- Case decided … Samuel Alito
- Justices who dissented: John P. Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg …
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From bananas to baby socks, lawyers stick to routines before Supreme Court arguments
30 Sep 2023 12:33 GMT
… Supreme Court cases and Chief Justices of the time
Landmark Supreme Court cases and Chief Justices …
Roper v. Simmons
- Topic: death penalty for minors
- Case decided … Samuel Alito
- Justices who dissented: John P. Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg …
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Kennedy’s Supreme Court legacy is being erased, in part by past clerks
03 Sep 2023 10:56 GMT
… fellow Republican-nominated Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and David Souter 30 years … , former executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Most prominent is … .
Six of the nine justices are former Supreme Court clerks. Chemerinsky believes Roberts …
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How DeSantis Packed the Florida Supreme Court
20 Jul 2023 21:43 GMT
… Marshall, the first Black US Supreme Court justice, for not sufficiently revering the … -appointed justices, like Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, and David Souter, who … that established independent reviews of death penalty cases on appeal for proportionality …
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DeSantis pushes death penalty for child rapists as ‘24 decision nears
17 Apr 2023 22:21 GMT
… would be “cutting against recent Supreme Court precedent” but adding that the … unusual punishment prevented imposing the death penalty for child rapists or anyone … of the majority justices — Anthony Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader …
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Supreme Court leak signals the triumph of politics over the law
03 May 2022 19:39 GMT
… v. Maryland, the Supreme Court decided that in death penalty cases, prosecutors could not … manipulated the system of appointing Supreme Court justices, willing to do whatever it … ’Connor, Anthony M. Kennedy, David Souter, even Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr …
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Jackson will join more diverse and conservative Supreme Court. Here's what she can expect.
08 Apr 2022 15:20 GMT
… the Supreme Court. He was instrumental in striking down the death penalty in … Wikimedia Commons
David Souter (1990–2009)
Many seemingly conservative justices were appointed by … dramatically than Massachusetts-born Justice David Souter. After a stellar academic …
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Every Supreme Court justice of the past 50 years
08 Apr 2022 11:06 GMT
… the Supreme Court. He was instrumental in striking down the death penalty in … Wikimedia Commons
David Souter (1990–2009)
Many seemingly conservative justices were appointed … dramatically than Massachusetts-born Justice David Souter. After a stellar academic …