"He was also a longtime proponent of amending the U.S. Constitution to allow 18 year old citizens to vote. "Long ago, according to historians, the age of maturity was fixed at 21, because that was the age at which a young man was thought to be capable of bearing armor. Strange as it may seem, the weight of armor in the 11th century governs the right to vote of Americans in the 20th century," said Kennedy in 1970. His dream was accomplished in 1971 with the signing of the Twenty-sixth Amendment that lowered the voted age from 21 to 18."

I'm not one to stomp on someone's grave after they've passed. He lived twice as long as the woman he drove off of that bridge in Massachusetts, but I understand that his family must be grieving and this is a difficult time for them.

Good pics, and by the way, I like Souter.