Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died
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#2Maybe the first Supreme Court justice I knew by name as a child:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpUyxovK7k
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#3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWcVtWennr0
Here he is discussing the dangers of the erosion of civic knowledge.
Re: Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died
#4Maybe the first Supreme Court justice I knew by name as a child: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpUyxovK7k
it's a testament to the ubiquity of The Simpsons for millennial Americans that I knew exactly what this was a link to before I even clicked on it. And then I did and still laughed at it.
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#5"No not Souter! Oh nooo!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpUyxovK7k
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#6He lived in New Hampshire and after the Kelo decision which allowed eminent domain on a property, which he was a deciding vote on, some local NH politicians tried to use Kelo to seize his property, which caused a kerfluffle in the Libertarian side; if it happened today I would guess it would go farther, given wider divisions in politics.
Re: Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died
#7Maybe the first Supreme Court justice I knew by name as a child: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpUyxovK7k
What about the late Earl Warren? https://youtu.be/FUw9Eo9QqmM
That's the one I remember from the simpsond back then
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#8I was active in history and civics events in high school and I remember going to DC for a civics competition, and Justice David Souter spoke at it.
I was a teenager at the time, it was the 90s, and I don't think I took much of anything too seriously, but I remember being kind of in awe of him. He talked about the importance of civic education which to this day that remains one of my core beliefs as an American.
A lot has changed for the worse since then, and it feels like we've only gotten further from the idea that the purpose of education is, more than anything else, to teach us to be better citizens and participants in our democracy.
Re: Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died
#9https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWcVtWennr0 Here he is discussing the dangers of the erosion of civic knowledge.
He sure called it.
Re: Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died
#10He lived in New Hampshire and after the Kelo decision which allowed eminent domain on a property, which he was a deciding vote on, some local NH politicians tried to use Kelo to seize his property, which caused a kerfluffle in the Libertarian side; if it happened today I would guess it would go farther, given wider divisions in politics.
In Kelo v. City of New London[1], Souter sided with the majority in ruling that it was constitutional for the government to use eminent domain to take property from a private owner and give it to another private owner. In response, some people started a voter initiative to take Souter's property and give it to a private developer to turn into a hotel.[2] The vast majority of voters were against it, and the politicians who backed it were voted out in the next election.