NPR Retracts False Alito Retirement Report on 76-Year-Old Justice

3 articles · Updated · New York Daily News · Jun 30

NPR pulled a briefly published report saying Justice Samuel Alito planned to retire, then posted an editor’s note stating he had made no such announcement.
Nina Totenberg said the story treated Alito’s retirement as an “announcement” rather than sourced reporting, so it did not undergo the stricter fact-checking normally applied.
A Supreme Court spokesperson told the Washington Post that no retirement statement had been issued, reinforcing NPR’s retraction of the report as erroneous.
Alito, 76, has long faced retirement speculation because he is one of the court’s oldest and most conservative justices, and Trump said in April he was prepared to replace aging members if needed.
Any vacancy would require Senate confirmation, making the timing politically significant with Republicans controlling Congress but facing November elections.