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The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.

~David Souter

Topics: Based Between Change Changed Constitution Did Equal Equal Protection Facts Guarantee Had Hard Language Laws Obvious Protection Say Very Which Would

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The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.

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History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

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The restoration comes not only from the landscape and air, though they play their significant part, but from the people. I feel a strong need to be in New Hampshire for as much of the summer as I can manage it.

~David Souter

Topics: Air Feel Hampshire Landscape Manage Much Need New New Hampshire Only Part People Play Restoration Significant Strong Summer Though I Feel I Can

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The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.

~David Souter

Topics: Body Camera Come Courtroom Day Dead Going Our Over Roll See You

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I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy.

~David Souter

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The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest.

~David Souter

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Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

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Millions of statements are made about the president every day on every subject and from every standpoint; threats of violence are not an integral feature of any one subject or viewpoint as distinct from others. Differential treatment of threats against the president, then, selects nothing but special risks, not special messages.

~David Souter

Topics: About Against Any Day Differential Distinct Every Every Day Feature Integral Made Messages Millions Nothing Others President Risks Special Standpoint Statements Subject Then Threats Treatment Viewpoint Violence

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We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

~David Souter

Topics: Affirmative Caused Conduct Defense Discrimination Employer Hold Liable Looking Subject Supervisor Vicariously Victim Well

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: September 17th, 1939

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