David H. SUVER, a republican judge who combined with the Liberal wing of the Court, died at 85 years old

David H. SOURT, a Republican of New Hampshire who was appointed to the Supreme Court by President George HW Bush and who over 19 years on this bench has become a pillar of the Liberal Tribunal’s Liberal wing, died Thursday at his home in Concord, NH he was 85 years old.

His death was announced on Friday morning by the Supreme Court, which did not quote, saying only that he had died “peacefully”.

A shy man who has never got married and who preferred a single evening with a good book in the company of Washington Insiders, the underground judge retired at the unusually young age of 69 to return to his beloved state. His retirement at the end of the mandate of the court 2008-2009 gave President Barack Obama a vacancy of the Supreme Court in the first months of his presidency. The president appointed judge Sonia Sotomayor at the headquarters.

At the end of his second year at the Supreme Court, the undergrowth had acquired the label that would remain for the rest of his mandate. He was the judge who surprised the president who appointed him; who left the conservative republicans to have disappointed; whose migration on the bench from right to left led to the cry of “No More Souters” when another president named Bush, George W., had vacant posts from the Supreme Court to be filled.

Those who expressed such a surprise, who implicitly or directly accused the judge to have described himself in a way and to prove to be entirely something else, did not pay attention to his testimony to the Senate judicial committee during his confirmation hearing in September 1990, or chose not to believe what they heard.