Samuel Alito says he is considering retirement & could hand Trump another nomination
Alito, 76, is one of six conservative justices on the Supreme Court
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has revealed that he is considering retirement, potentially handing President Donald Trump another nomination.
“It’s something that I think that somebody at my age has to think about every term,” the 76-year-old justice told CBS News in a clip from an interview set to air Monday.
“But I thought that I could still make a valuable contribution, which is why I became a justice and a judge in the first place.”
There are already three Trump-nominated justices on the bench — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
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