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Souter went on to align himself firmly with the more liberal bloc on the Court, leading to [[conservative]] anger at President Bush for this calculated blunder.  Souter's style is noticeably non-legal, as when he opened one opinion with an unusually non-legal description of "[[mens rea]]":<ref>''Clark v. Arizona'', 126 S. Ct. 2709, 2716 (2006) (emphasis added).</ref>

Souter went on to align himself firmly with the more liberal bloc on the Court, leading to [[conservative]] anger at President Bush for this calculated blunder.  Souter's style is noticeably non-legal, as when he opened one opinion with an unusually non-legal description of "[[mens rea]]":<ref>''Clark v. Arizona'', 126 S. Ct. 2709, 2716 (2006) (emphasis added).</ref>

:whether Arizona violates due process in restricting consideration of defense evidence of mental illness and incapacity to its bearing on a claim of insanity, thus eliminating its significance directly on the issue of '''the mental element of the crime charged (known in legal shorthand as the mens rea, or guilty mind)'''

:whether Arizona violates due process in restricting consideration of defense evidence of mental illness and incapacity to its bearing on a claim of [[insanity]], thus eliminating its significance directly on the issue of '''the mental element of the crime charged (known in legal shorthand as the mens rea, or guilty mind)'''

== Timeline of Souter's shift from [[conservative]] to [[liberal]] ==

== Timeline of Souter's shift from [[conservative]] to [[liberal]] ==