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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457501103321

Autore

Yarbrough Tinsley E. <1941->

Titolo

David Hackett Souter : traditional Republican on the Rehnquist court / / Tinsley E. Yarbrough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-280-50299-1

9786610502998

0-19-534790-0

1-60256-798-0

Edizione

[1st cloth ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Disciplina

347.73/2634

Soggetti

Judges - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

New England yankee -- New Hampshire judge -- "Stealth candidate" -- Common law justice -- Constitutional nationalist -- Traditional Republican.

Sommario/riassunto

Since his appointment, David Hackett Souter has embraced a flexible, evolving, and highly pragmatic judicial style that embraces a high regard for precedent. Drawing on Souter's opinions, papers of the Justice's contemporaries and other relevant records and interviews, this book offers a biography of David Hackett Souter.