{"id":353793,"date":"2026-08-07T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/justice-samuel-alito-confirms-hes-staying-on-the-supreme-court-for-another-term"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:24:12","slug":"justice-samuel-alito-confirms-hes-staying-on-the-supreme-court-for-another-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/justice-samuel-alito-confirms-hes-staying-on-the-supreme-court-for-another-term","title":{"rendered":"Justice Samuel Alito confirms he is staying on the Supreme Court docket for one more time period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">WASHINGTON &#8212; <\/span>Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confirmed Friday he\u2019s staying on the nation\u2019s highest court, weeks after a swell of speculation about a possible retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cObviously, I\u2019m here for another term,\u201d Alito, 76, said in an <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/justice-samuel-alito-practical-originalism-and-its-facile-critics-617d5642?st=PPyaW8&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">interview published<\/a> in The Wall Street Journal\u2019s editorial section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Discussion of Alito&#8217;s future hit a fever pitch in June, when a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/npr-retraction-samuel-alito-supreme-court-retirement-fbec47947f8efc496e0e744251e8729c\">mistake by a veteran<\/a> Supreme Court reporter at National Public Radio resulted in the erroneous publication of a previously prepared retirement story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The story was quickly retracted and the court confirmed it was inaccurate, but that did not stop the talk about what Alito might do. A retirement would likely have given Republican President Donald Trump a chance to name a fourth Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a rare interview in his chambers, Alito also discussed the state of the court, rejecting the idea that political partisanship affects his decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">\u201cI vote in every case the way I think the case should be decided,\u201d he said. \u201cIf that means a high correlation with what Trump wants, fine. If it means zero correlation with what Trump wants, fine as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/justice-samuel-alito-confirms-staying-supreme-court-term-135470106\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confirmed Friday he\u2019s staying on the nation\u2019s highest court, weeks after a swell of speculation about a possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30224,30221,614,30222,30223,7945,10931,6832,18086,5632,636],"class_list":["post-353793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alito","tag-docket-reporter","tag-donald-trump","tag-nationwide-public-radio","tag-publication","tag-republican-president","tag-samuel-alito","tag-supreme-court","tag-supreme-court-of-the-united-states","tag-the-wall-road-journal","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353795,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353793\/revisions\/353795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}