Posted on 06/30/2026 8:49:57 AM PDT by DFG
Tuesday morning, NPR reported that Justice Samuel Alito was retiring from the Supreme Court — a report that was soon taken down and replaced with an editor's note saying it had been "published in error."
The original article, archived online at the Wayback Machine here, was written by Nina Totenberg and headlined "Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires." The archived version of the NPR homepage shows that the article held a top featured spot for the brief period it was live.
"Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court's opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, is retiring, the court announced Tuesday," the article began, noting that the justice'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."
Shortly after the article was published, a moderator in the live chat at SCOTUSblog that had been discussing the morning's opinions noted that the court's public information officer "just emphasized that the court has not made any announcement to that effect."
The rest of the article discussed Alito's opinions in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and other major cases, as well as reactions from legal experts and friends of the justice. The final paragraph included a small typo, quoting a Yale Law professor as saying that Alito "will forever be remembered" as the justice who "took sown Roe v. Wade" instead of "took down," lending credence to the theory the article was a prewrite mistakenly published prematurely. It is common for media outlets to prewrite obituaries and retirement announcements for major news figures like Supreme Court justices.
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NPR is the bigger error.
Alito and Thomas both need to consider retiring. As much as I don’t want Trump to replace either man, I’d prefer him to a Democrat.
NPR sucks...
Please Alieto. Watch where you go on vacation.
Please Alieto. Watch where you go on vacation.
I’m looking at Trump’s choice last time thinking 🤔 no way
Not Particularly Reliable.................
Alito, Scalia, and Thomas are the three of the best SCOTUS justices of the last 150 years.
We’re screwed either way. It will take a more drastic event to stop our slide, which means it will get worse before it gets better (if then).
There are only 100 writers at NPR.
Someone leaked this.
“Published in error”: Is he retiring or not?
Published in error could mean he is retiring and the error was not keeping it a secret.
For some reason, I seem to think this “accident” has happened before.
You are correct. All 3 of Trump’s are at best wobbly and Amy is a f’n traitor.
And, on our dime.
Justice Alito has written over 100 majority opinions, many of them major landmarks, and over 100 dissenting opinions.
But NPR spends most of this bogus announcement whining about Dobbs.
No matter how much you despise NPR, it’s not enough.
I have a feeling that whoever is picking justices after 2028 is gonna do a lot worse.
If you want the real news listen to NPR.
A simple solution: Musk should do the hiring and Trump should do the firing.
It should be a politician with a conservative track record. Hopefully they won’t ‘evolve’. I always thought a sitting senator would be easiest to confirm as they are ‘club members’. When Oren Hatch and John Cornyn were senators in their mid-50’s I think it would have worked. Instead they stuck around and got stale.
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