(excerpt from) NY Times
Souter Plans to Leave Supreme Court
By PETER BAKER and JEFF ZELENY / Published: April 30, 2009
WASHINGTON — Justice David H. Souter has indicated that he plans to retire at the end of the term in June, giving President Obama his first appointment to the Supreme Court, three people informed about the decision said Thursday night…
A spokeswoman for the court said Thursday night that Justice Souter, 69, “has no comment on these reports that he is planning to resign.”
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At Ballot Access News, ballot access expert Richard Winger has extensive comments on Justice Souter’s career related to ballot access and third party and independent candidates.
(excerpt from) Ballot Access News
Justice David Souter to Retire
Published: April 30, 2009
Souter has never seemed very interested in the problems of minor parties or independent candidates…
Souter supported debate inclusion for government-sponsored debates in the 1998 case Arkansas Educational TV Commission v Forbes, and he supported fusion in the 1997 case Timmons v Twin Cities Area New Party. But, in his separate dissent in Timmons, he said that the argument that the “two-party system” needs to be protected is a strong argument…
8 responses so far ↓
1 Kimberly Wilder // Apr 30, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I guess this is not “third party or independent news” in the strictest sense. But, darned it will affect us all a lot!
I suppose I could also say in as much as the Supreme Court is the ultimate decider on all our ballot access cases, it will make a big difference in the territory…
2 libertariangirl // Apr 30, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I think its very relevant
3 Kimberly Wilder // Apr 30, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Wow! After I posted in a rush, to try to get a bit of scoop on google-news, I found Richard Winger’s comments. Now, that is relevant!!!
4 anonymous // May 1, 2009 at 8:43 am
Neither did Barack Obama ever show much concern for third party concerns. Richard Winger and Chicago newspapers have both shone light on how Obama made an unblocked run into the Illinois state Senate by challenging the petitions of every Democratic candidate until he was running unopposed. No doubt he will not stress the importance of multiple choices on a ballot to his Supreme Court nominee.
5 PTK // May 1, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Barack Obama did show some third party support, since he was a member of the New Party.
6 HumbleTravis // May 1, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Good to see this post with Richard Winger’s comments. Souter was also one of the anti-property rights justices in the infamous Kelo v. New London case.
http://www.freestarmedia.com/hotellostliberty2.html
7 Richard Cooper // May 3, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Good riddance.
8 Donald Raymond Lake // May 3, 2009 at 9:21 pm
I never knew any one who liked him. [May be just me and my circle..........]
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