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.
Alito, 76, made the remarks in a rare summertime interview with the Journal’s James Taranto, published Friday. A retirement this year would have handed President Donald Trump a vacancy to fill with a like-minded jurist while Republicans control the Senate.
“Obviously I’m here for another term,” Alito told the newspaper.
Asked whether calls for him to retire bother him, Alito described them as unwelcome.
“It’s not pleasant, in the sense that it’s a...
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