NPR on June 30 retracted a report that said Justice Samuel Alito was stepping down.
NPR reporter Nina Totenberg reported that the Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that Alito, 76, “is retiring.”
The 29-paragraph story outlined Alito’s history on the bench, primarily focusing on his views on matters such as abortion and the death penalty. Alito authored the majority opinion in the 2022 decision that struck down Roe v. Wade, sending the matter of abortion back to the states.
Shortly after publication, NPR took the article down.
“Earlier today, we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring,” NPR said in an editor’s note. “Neither Alito nor the court’s public information office has announced his retirement, and we have retracted the story.”…