{"id":159995,"date":"2026-08-10T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/10\/samuel-alito-sees-vultures-circling-his-supreme-court-seat-but-has-no-plans-to-retire\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:37:23","slug":"samuel-alito-sees-vultures-circling-his-supreme-court-seat-but-has-no-plans-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/10\/samuel-alito-sees-vultures-circling-his-supreme-court-seat-but-has-no-plans-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Alito Sees \u2018Vultures\u2019 Circling His Supreme Court Seat But Has No Plans To Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Obviously I\u2019m here for another term<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> Justice Samuel Alito<\/a>, in comments given to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, concerning his continuing tenure on the Supreme Court. NPR incorrectly reported on June 30 that Alito was stepping down from the Court<\/a>, and the story was quickly retracted. Alito just completed his 20th term as a SCOTUS justice, and many conservatives have called for his retirement. \u201cIt\u2019s not pleasant, in the sense that it\u2019s a reminder of mortality,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like, what are those vultures doing up there? They are flying around. But it goes with life tenure.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Samuel Alito Sees \u2018Vultures\u2019 Circling His Supreme Court Seat But Has No Plans To Retire<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Obviously I\u2019m here for another term<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> Justice Samuel Alito<\/a>, in comments given to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, concerning his continuing tenure on the Supreme Court. NPR incorrectly reported on June 30 that Alito was stepping down from the Court<\/a>, and the story was quickly retracted. Alito just completed his 20th term as a SCOTUS justice, and many conservatives have called for his retirement. \u201cIt\u2019s not pleasant, in the sense that it\u2019s a reminder of mortality,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like, what are those vultures doing up there? They are flying around. But it goes with life tenure.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Samuel Alito Sees \u2018Vultures\u2019 Circling His Supreme Court Seat But Has No Plans To Retire<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. Obviously I\u2019m here for another term. \u2014 Justice Samuel Alito, in comments given to the Wall Street Journal, concerning his continuing tenure on the Supreme Court. NPR incorrectly reported on June 30 that Alito was stepping down from the Court, and the story was quickly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Staci-Zaretsky-ZsNoC1.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}