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Beginning of article

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . .

First Amendment, U. S. Constitution

Since his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court by President George Bush in 1990, Justice David Souter has not followed a straight ideological line, for he has turned out to be more liberal than officials in the Bush administration predicted.1 In his first few terms on the bench, Justice Souter established himself as a moderate conservative on a generally conservative court.2 More recently, Justice Souter's opinions and voting alignments have moved in a more liberal direction, especially in the areas of free speech, …