Justice Alito has no plans on retirement

Justice Alito says he won’t retire before Supreme Court term ends

Justice Samuel Alito confirmed he will not retire before the Supreme Court term ends in June, a stand that freezes any near-term path to new appointments under a Democratic Senate.

Fox News reported that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confirmed he has no plans to retire and is committed through at least the current term, set to end in late June.

Alito made the statement Thursday amid speculation about the Court’s future after a weak Republican midterm showing and projections of firm Democratic control of the Senate when the new congressional term begins in January.

After Justice Clarence Thomas, Alito is the oldest member of the Court at 76. Thomas is 78. That age gap has kept retirement talk alive on both sides of the aisle. Alito’s answer closed it off for now.

Ed Whelan, a conservative legal expert who clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, wrote on X that Trump is now effectively blocked from appointing federal judges or Supreme Court justices during the final two years of his term.

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