Editor's note: NPR retracts story about Justice Samuel Alito retiring

[demmiblue]

Editor's note: NPR retracts story

Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court's opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, is retiring, the court announced Tuesday.

Alito was nominated to the court in 2005 by President George W. Bush to fill the seat vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

In the history of the Supreme Court, the names of just a few justices are linked with a single very famous, or infamous, decision. Chief Justice John Marshall for his groundbreaking decision in1803, declaring that courts have the power to strike down laws that violate the Constitution. Chief Justice Roger Taney for his infamous decision in the Dred Scott case declaring that no African American, enslaved or free, could be a citizen of the United states, a decision that led in part to the Civil War; Chief Justice Earl Warren for his 1954 decision declaring racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. And in our own times, Alito's name is indelibly linked with the court's opinion overturning a half century's worth of decisions declaring that women have a right to abortion.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-s1-4622951/samuel-alito-retires

[Johnny2X2X]

1. NPR retracted this

Was posted by mistake.

But it might still be happening.

[demmiblue]

3. Thanks!

That’s a big fuck-up!

[ITAL]

4. I'm sure it's happening

He probably was planning to wait till tomorrow or something, and they jumped the gun.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I hear Matt Gaetz is available. /nt

[no_hypocrisy]

5. And Alina Habba

[MustLoveBeagles]

7. Aileen Cannon ?

[yorkster]

8. And Loose Cannon..

[The Madcap]

6. Judge Cannon

Could be a new courtroom reality show. Comedy gold.

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. I had the same thought. 🤔

[musette_sf]

10. Fred Willard had a similar idea

“Supreme Folk”

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[WarGamer]

14. Not the first pick... she'd be the Thomas replacement.

Kacsmaryk to replace Alito.

He's damn near Timothy McVeigh in a robe.

[a kennedy]

11. Of course it's coming.....and fawking tRump get's another pick.

FAWK, FAWK, FAWK, FAWK, FAWK, FAWK, FAWK, FAWK, FAWK, FAWK.

[WarGamer]

12. I've long predicted that Trump will reload two new Justices before January

Probably Matthew Kacsmaryk and Aileen Cannon

[EnergizedLib]

13. We must expand when we get the chance

[SSJVegeta]

15. He probably is they just dont want NPR to be the one to break the news.

[tanyev]

16. I wonder if this was a false story someone threw out to try to catch a leaker.

🤔