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A retired Republican US Supreme Court justice who became a liberal darling and cast a key vote to uphold abortion rights has died. Justice David Souter died peacefully at his New Hampshire home on Thursday at the age of 85. His cause of death was not revealed by the Supreme Court on Friday. Fellow Republican President George HW Bush appointed Souter to America’s highest court in 1990. He was nicknamed the ‘stealth candidate’ when he was nominated to replace William J Brennan Jr, who was seen as a leader of...