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.

Jeffrey Toobin
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  1. Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

  2. 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.

  3. He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

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  5. He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

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