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Justice Souter reflects on service
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| Last Edited | Jason May 06, 2009 04:07am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, May 6, 2009 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Reporting from Philadelphia -- Retiring Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter gave an emotional speech during a judicial conference here Tuesday, saying that a judge's place in history is not reserved only for the "perfect" opinion or the landmark ruling, but for a "craftsman" who did his best in every case.
"I didn't intend to have this be a farewell," Souter, 69, told about 300 judges and lawyers at the annual conference of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. "I swear to you that I was not the leak."
Souter announced Friday -- after media reports Thursday night -- that he would retire at the end of the court term this summer. (Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont said Tuesday that Souter had told him of his plans in March.)
But now that the news was out, Souter said, "It gives me a chance to say some things on my mind. . . . I've been doing a mental reckoning of sorts." |
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