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Irked Alito breaks silence on retirement rumors and mortality as 'vultures' circle
Alito Isn’t Hiding the Court’s Partisanship. He’s Normalizing It.Life Tenure, Real PowerSamuel Alito’s latest interview does not reveal a mystery. It confirms a structure. A life-tenured justice, protected by an aging conservative supermajority and a Republican Senate that may still be available for another confirmation, can openly signal alignment with Donald Trump and call it judicial principle.The important fact is not that NPR briefly misreported his retirement. The important fact is that one of the Court’s most consequential conservatives is still in place, still deciding cases, and…
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