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At the the time Stagecoach founders Sir Brian Souter and Dame Ann Gloag owned more than half the Falkirk-based company.

One by one, the nine Supreme Court justices paid tribute to David Souter following his passing last week.

No one praised David Souter’s political independence, or his freedom from any specific ideology, political, constitutional or otherwise.

Indeed, tucked behind the justices' careful praise of Souter’s life lies perhaps his greatest contribution.

David Souter stripped aside the well-maintained fiction that justices are appointed to the Court for their erudition, their intellect, their learnedness, and their reason.