Editing David Souter (section)

== Post-Supreme Court career ==
As a Supreme Court justice with retired status, Souter remained a judge and was entitled to sit [[Visiting judge|by designation]] on lower courts. After his retirement from the Supreme Court and until 2020, he regularly sat by designation on panels of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit|First Circuit Court of Appeals]], based in Boston and covering Maine, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, and his adopted home state of New Hampshire, generally in February or March of each year.<ref name="2010report">{{cite web
| title        = First Circuit 2010 Annual Report
| url          = http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/oce/2010AnnualReport.pdf
| publisher    = Circuit Executive, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
| author       = Wente, Gary H.
| date         = September 7, 2012
| access-date  = December 28, 2012
| page         = 8
| quote        = In January, February, March, and May 2010, retired United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter sat with the court.
| editor       = Pagano, Florence
| editor2      = Dumas, Michelle
| editor3      = McQuillan, Kelly
| archive-date = December 24, 2016
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20161224142226/http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/oce/2010AnnualReport.pdf
| url-status   = live
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/06/21/first-circuit-upholds-firearms-restrictions.htm |title=First Circuit Upholds Firearms Restrictions|author=Carrano, Gina|access-date=August 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160626075641/http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/06/21/first-circuit-upholds-firearms-restrictions.htm |archive-date=June 26, 2016 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

Souter maintained a low public profile after retiring from the Supreme Court. In one exception, comments he made during a 2012 appearance at the [[Capitol Center for the Arts]] in New Hampshire about the dangers of "civic ignorance" were, in 2016, called "remarkably prescient" of the [[Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign|presidential campaign]] of [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Souter warned of a Trump-like candidate in prescient remarks |url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/souter-warned-trump-candidate-prescient-remarks-msna916691 |access-date=July 4, 2022 |website=MSNBC.com |date=October 21, 2016 |language=en}}</ref>