Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sat down with CBS News to discuss recent high-profile cases and the retirement rumors.
In June, NPR reporter Nina Totenberg sparked a firestorm after publishing an article claiming that Samuel Alito was retiring.
Totenberg claimed that the Supreme Court announced that Alito was retiring.
Nina Totenberg wrote: “Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court’s opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, is retiring, the court announced on Tuesday.”
However, 10 minutes later, the NPR article was scrubbed and left with an editor’s note.
The original article is archived here.
“This story has been taken down. It was published in error,” the note read.
Alito said that he does not plan to retire.
During a sit-down interview with CBS’s Jan Crawford, the 76-year-old justice said that he decided to remain on the court after considering whether he could still make a “valuable contribution.”
When asked if he thought about retirement after the end of the last term, Alito replied: “I thought about it. It’s something I think about — well, someone my age has to think about every term, but I thought that I could still make a valuable contribution which is why I became this justice and a judge in the first place so that was basically it.
Jan Crawford asked Alito if he would reconsider retirement every year.
“Yeah, I think I have to,” Alito said with a smile.
WATCH:
Ad block users: Some site features may not work correctly while an ad blocker is enabled, because they break scripts and content this website depends on. If you can’t see comments below, for example, please disable your ad blocker.
