But if you go to the link now, you get this:
Is this what Justice Thomas was so jovial about yesterday?June 30, 2026
NPR got something very right and wrong or just very very wrong.
But if you go to the link now, you get this:
Is this what Justice Thomas was so jovial about yesterday?
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“Layers and layers of fact checkers and lawyers” loses out to “rush out the unverified scoop” again. Unexpectedly.
I guess they found the leak.
BSNOW - fuck off FOAD.
Maybe they hope the wish be the father of the thought. I hope alioto stays. He's only 76. That dullard Stevens stayed till he was 95. RBG, stayed till till she was in her mid-80s despite constant health battles. Any normal person would've retired, but she had to be carried out feet first.
You know who should retire? Nina totenberg. She's 82! i can remember her doing the Bork hearings. That was almost 40 years ago. Why do these liberals get to hang around forever and no one says "Gee, maybe we should hire someone more in touch with real life, someone who didn't graduate from HS when JFK was President."
Watching that video, Thomas certainly is a nice guy. I would've been quite rude to someone badgering me that like. After Thomas made it clear he had no comment, she should have shut the fuck up.
I'd love to see Alito and Thomas on the SC forever...but I wish they would retire soon. If Trump dies we will have thereafter a SC full of Amy Coney Barretts - at best.
NPR signaling to some young, enterprising Mandami staffer/ActBlue thug that there is an assassination to be undertaken...
Lol. Maybe they found a leaker.
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Rule number one for Trump: Make sure your next appointment is not like John Roberts or ACB.
Rumors of his retirement are joyfully exaggerated, and I'm having a gay old time.
Clarence Thomas took the questioning as he walked down the hall well, and it was polite on both sides, but he may have preferred the Star Wars Imperial March theme.
Are Thomas and Alito betting the Republicans hold the Senate in this fall’s election? Or are they looking forward to Trump appointing an acting Supreme Court Justice? I suspect mischief.
It's an interesting question: Did NPR get burned by a bad source, or did they just have this item ready to go on speculation?
Of all the headlines I saw about this, the New York Times seems to be the most critical of NPR:
"NPR Retracts Article Falsely Suggesting Justice Alito Retired"
I wonder if that's because they consider NPR to be one of their main competitors.
Someone could sure use shoulder straps to straighten out posture (ing) just saying
Pops up in my YouTube viewing
I'm going with the "maybe they found a leaker" explanation.
If NPR dashes hopes of NYTimes readers who's left with sopping the tears
What would Speaker Johnson have to do with USSC selection for advise and consent
Next appointment should be: Don Willett from the 5th Curcuit.
He was a great follow on X before he got nominated/approved for the 5th Circuit.
“Is this what Justice Thomas was so jovial about yesterday?“
He’s seems to always be in a good mood. I thought the questioning reporter was respectful and Thomas kept answering “You have good questions,” as he respectfully declined to answer them. Well done on both sides.
...before the opinions this morning SCOTUSBlog moderators were fantasizing/spitballing about the details of how the announcement of Alito retiring might work. My money's on a gaggle of dooshbags at NPR looking in at that chat and in their glee mistook it as fact
Roberts planted something to see who would leak it. Now he knows the likely Dobbs culprit. Just a hunch.
...that would be very easy for the ding dongs at NPR to do, as the SCOTUSBlog is difficult to navigate. If one tries to review the past the feed scrolls back to the end every time anyone posts a new message. I bet NPR had problems with that...
"NPR got something very right."
That WOULD be news.
I think it would be wise for both Alito and Thomas to resign this summer and permit the appointment of two more hard core young constitutionalists who will carry forward their shining legacy for another generation. I don't think we are going to lose the Senate but it will be close, and there are still a few RINOs who would like nothing better than to spitefully shit in Trump's punch bowl.
"I thought the questioning reporter was respectful..."
By my count she asked essentially the same question 16 times.
That doesn't become "respectful" simply by adding "sir."
It's interesting that the byline in the retraction you linked has changed from "Nina Totenberg" to "NPR Staff."
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