well, david sutter served ably for 19 years on the a nation's highest tribunal. his opinions in clear elegant language. justice sutter produced only eight majority pins, none of which were of major significance. his votes aligned him with the court's conservative block, but he had the highest revel of agreement 89% with justice sandra day o'connor. they were good friends. in criminal justice cases, he continued his tense dips cichb side with the government. conservatives always hailed sutd are's decisive vote which upheld the constitutionality of regulations fpreventing clinics there discussing absorption with clients. planned parenthood to uphoeld roe v wade was recommend nany o sent of the past. members of the pro-life humidity were devastated that sutter had not provided the fifth vote to overturn roe v wade. he did not nominee from an he will came laescalated war of wo. a first attempted establishment claw cases, sutter began to take the lead on the separation 1u67 as this board of education and university of virginia. in contrast, clarence thomas' two decades

so now i will turn to the appointment of david sutter, henry will cover the thomas appointment. thought to be a moderate conservative, and road scholar at oxford, sutter received bush's nomination to the u.s. first circuit court of appeals and began serving there in may have 1990.o 199f 1990. when the brennan seat opened up, sutter's dear friend and mentor from new hampshire lobbied hard for judge sutter to fill the brennan seat. we can't go into all the details about the discussions behind the scenes, but eventually the list of potential nominees for the brennan seat included kenneth starr and clarence thomas. but eventually that list was winnowed down to david sutter and edith jones. governor sununu's comments in the oral history reveal his nuanced approach to the selection criteria that he considered, including future nominations and a desire on his part to avoid reserving seats for various groups on the high bench. he was of the thought that perhaps justice o'connor would leave soon and he didn't want edith jones to go into that seat for fear of this concept of the women's se