Nonilex<p>Former <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DavidSouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSouter</span></a> died on Thursday at his New Hampshire home, the court said in a statement on Friday. He was 85.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JudicialIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonpartisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonpartisan</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-supreme-court-justice-souter-dies-court-says-2025-05-09/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/us/former-us</span><span class="invisible">-supreme-court-justice-souter-dies-court-says-2025-05-09/</span></a> </p><p>🧵Excerpts from a beautiful piece written in the NYT by David J. Garrow in 1994 on Souter’s remarkable contribution in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in which the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> upheld the right to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> as established by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RoeVWade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoeVWade</span></a>:</p>