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{"id":27424,"date":"2026-10-06T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/alito-says-he-wont-retire-during-lame-duck-session\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:19:44","slug":"alito-says-he-wont-retire-during-lame-duck-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/alito-says-he-wont-retire-during-lame-duck-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Alito says he won\u2019t retire during lame duck session"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he plans to stay on the court through next year, brushing aside speculation that he could retire early and let President Donald Trump fill his seat after the election but before a new Congress is sworn in next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI intend to stick around through this term,\u201d Alito, 76, said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/supreme-courts-alito-plans-to-stay-even-if-democrats-win-senate\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg News<\/a>. \u201cI made that decision many months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court began its new term on Monday, which will last through next June.<\/p>\n<p>Alito, the second-oldest justice on the bench, was in the news last week after telling CBS News that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/10\/02\/alito-supreme-court-retirement-01105789\" target=\"_blank\">considered retiring<\/a> this year and will do so again in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come as the fight over control of the Senate is in a dead heat. Democrats would have to flip at least four seats, but recent polls show several races, including in states Trump carried easily two years ago, remain competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Several Senate Democratic candidates are already running on the prospect of filling a seat on the Supreme Court or, at least, denying Trump\u2019s ability to do so. Senate Republicans successfully blocked a Democratic nominee in 2016, allowing Trump to fill the seat after he came into the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur race to decide Ohio\u2019s next Senator could not only determine control of the U.S. Senate, but also who fills a lifetime seat on the highest court in the land,\u201d Sherrod Brown, the Democratic nominee in Ohio, wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/sherrodbrown.substack.com\/p\/justice-samuel-alito\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post<\/a> Monday. \u201cOhio\u2019s next senator could be our first line of defense against another partisan Supreme Court Justice \u2014 or rubber stamp a Trump nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he plans to stay on the court through next year, brushing aside speculation that he could retire early and let President Donald Trump fill his seat after the election but before a new Congress is sworn in next year. \u201cI intend to stick around through this term,\u201d Alito, 76, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}