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turbinetree

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Fri Jul 10, 2026, 10:05 PM Friday

Samuel Alito may have just tipped his hand on plans as retirement rumors fly: insiders [View all]

By Matthew Chapman
Published July 10, 2026 9:50 PM ET

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has ongoing plans for the Supreme Court, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

"Alito isn’t merely a favored legal mind of MAGA world," said the report. Uniquely among the right-wing justices, "he has managed to merge pro-Trump, antiestablishment forces with the more traditional wing of legal conservatism, long dominated by groups such as the Federalist Society."

"In so doing, he is quietly charting the future of a conservative legal movement that is facing an identity crisis" — and it's what allows him to almost exclusively vote on the side of Trump and the GOP in political cases, noted the Journal, as he was in the majority of basically every case where the GOP-appointed justices were a bloc, and even wanted to at least partially uphold Trump's executive order abolishing birthright citizenship.

https://www.rawstory.com/stringr/samuel-alito-2677205402/

He should be impeached right along with the other 5.................

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