“ He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check. ”
Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.
Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.
He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.
