Supreme Court Justice Alito: Addresses Retirement Rumors

The Supreme Court opened its new Term on Monday, which means it’s time once again for another entry into legal media’s favorite pastime: Is Sam Alito going to retire? This round of speculation didn’t come from a column in The Nation or a misheard announcement in the courtroom. It came from Alito himself. On a media tour timed to the release of his book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country (the source of last year’s retirement rumors), Alito told CBS News’s Jan Crawford that he thought about retiring at the end of last Term but decided he “could still make a valuable contribution.” He then made sure nobody got too comfortable, noting, “It’s something that I think that somebody at my age has to think about every Term.” Asked if he’d keep revisiting the question, he answered, “Yeah, I think I have to.” On Fox News Sunday, in the same sit-down where he told Shannon Bream he knows who leaked Dobbs , he said he’s been “bemused by the retirement speculation.” He added that “it’s not too pleasant to look up and see the vultures circling,” and that “it would be foolhardy to make a calculation [that] I’m going to serve for a certain number of additional years.” Willkie AI and Innovation leader Todd Friedlich spoke to LexisNexis about firm’s thoughtful approach to legal AI