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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, aged 76, revealed in a CBS News interview that he considered retiring from the bench earlier this year but ultimately decided to continue serving because he believes he can still contribute positively. During the interview, Alito also addressed concerns about his political influence and clarified that his rulings have been independent of the current administration's interests.
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Story summary
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, age 76, told CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford in an interview set to air Monday that he considered retiring at the end of this year's term but decided to stay because he still believes he can make a valuable contribution. He stated it is something he has to think about every year due to his age. Alito also mentioned that criticism from political leaders, including former President Joe Biden and current President Donald Trump, can be "quite damaging" to the institution of the Supreme Court. With Republicans controlling the Senate, if Alito were to retire now, Trump could potentially appoint another conservative justice, adding a fourth Trump-nominated justice to the court's 6-3 conservative majority.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says he considered retiring from the high court earlier this year, but declined to do so because he believes he can still make a contribution.
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Alito acknowledged as much in a wide-ranging interview with CBS News -where he fielded questions ranging to his 'legacy' (Alito refuses to consider it while on the bench), the flurry of emergency docket rulings, and the number of cases in which he has ruled in favor of President Donald Trump.
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On the issue of retirement, the 76-year-old Alito said he briefly weighed stepping down - citing the two decades he's spent the high court, and his age.
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Retirement is 'something I think that somebody at my age has to think about every term,' he told CBS News' Jan Crawford.
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The thought among some had been that Alito's retirement would give Trump room to nominate another justice to the Supreme Court - though the justice rejected that notion outright.
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Politics, he told CBS, was not a factor in his thinking.
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Rather, Alito said, 'I think I can still make a contribution.'
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'And it's hard to give up the opportunity to do something that I think will be good for the Constitution and good for the country as long as I'm able to do it.'
Alito also brushed aside questions as to whether he'd factored in his own role and influence on the court in deciding to stay.
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Alito spoke to CBS News in a rare, wide-ranging interview about his time on the bench
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Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and his colleagues attend Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in 2025
Supreme Court justices are seen posing for their group portrait
'It's too hard to predict what the political situation will be,' he said, 'and what any president might do with respect to a replacement.'
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Alito also addressed a recent Wall Street Journal report that showed he has sided with Trump more than any other justice on the high court.
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Asked by CBS News whether he would have ruled in the same way whether Trump was not in office, Alito insisted that he would.
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'I absolutely sincerely believe that I would,' Alito said in the interview.
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'I'm not trying to decide cases to help President Trump,' he added.
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'And I have not decided cases in the past to help or hurt any other president or presidential administration.'
Alito was nominated by President George W Bush and confirmed by the Senate 58-42 in January 2006, replacing Sandra Day O'Connor.
He is best known as the author of the 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion, in which he wrote that Roe was 'egregiously wrong from the start.'
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He also made headlines in 2010 when cameras caught him mouthing 'not true' as President Obama criticized the court's Citizens United ruling during the State of the Union.
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