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Souter To Retire

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This isn’t terribly surprising, at is well-known that Souter disliked life in D.C. and wasn’t likely to stay on the Court as long as possible in the manner of the typical modern justice. Still, I wouldn’t necessarily have expected him to be the first vacancy. He was a good justice, and certainly was as good a justice as could have been expected at the moment in history at which he was appointed. I’ll have more tomorrow. In the meantime, from the LGM achives, in one of the great moments of perverse consequences I note that Bush I appointed Souter in large measure because some people at the DOJ felt that Ken Starr wasn’t wingnutty enough….

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