Alito Says He's 'Here for Another Term,' Shuts Down Retirement Talk

Sam Alito is locked and loaded for another term

A month after National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg announced that Sam Alito was retiring (a story NPR later had to retract), the 76-year-old jurist told the Wall Street Journal in an interview, “Obviously, I’m here for another term.” Looking at the docket for the coming term, it is easy to see why. Even after overturning Roe…

Aug 8, 2026

Alito to WSJ: ‘Obviously I’m here for another term’

Justice Samuel Alito shut down any notion he’s planning to imminently retire from the Supreme Court in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Friday. It marks the justice’s first known comments on his future plans since NPR erroneously reported that the conservative jurist had announced his retirement on the final opinion day of…

Aug 7, 2026

Alito Says He's 'Here for Another Term,' Shuts Down Retirement Talk

Justice Samuel Alito told the Wall Street Journal on Friday that he intends to serve another term on the Supreme Court, shutting down months of speculation that he would step aside for a younger conservative successor. The post Alito Says He’s ‘Here for Another Term,’ Shuts Down Retirement Talk appeared first on Breitbart .

Aug 7, 2026