{"id":2568,"date":"2026-06-30T18:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:15:08","slug":"scotus-rocked-as-legendary-reporter-82-makes-bombshell-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Rocked as Legendary Reporter, 82, Makes Bombshell Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>NPR has dramatically retracted a news story announcing that conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito would retire\u2014and admitted its reporting was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2566\">MAGA Melts Down at \u2018DEI\u2019 Trump Justice For Citizenship \u2018Betrayal\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story, written by longtime legal affairs NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg, 82, was published minutes after Alito dissented from the Supreme Court ruling to keep birthright citizenship in place.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Her report was replaced by an editor\u2019s note.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEditor\u2019s Note: Earlier today we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. He has not announced his retirement and we have retracted the story,\u201d the story now reads.<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement, NPR editor-in-chief Thomas Evans went far further, blaming Totenberg directly for the error.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNPR\u2019s Supreme Court and Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg incorrectly reported that Justice Samuel Alito had retired. Neither Justice Alito nor the Supreme Court Public Information Office has announced his retirement,\u201d Evans said. \u201cAs soon as the error was realized, the story was retracted and removed from NPR\u2019s website and an on-air correction was broadcast. We regret the error and any confusion this may have caused. <\/p>\n<p>Evans added that Totenberg would be on NPR\u2019s <i>All Things Considered <\/i>to explain what happened and had contacted Alito to offer an apology. <\/p>\n<p>The timing of NPR\u2019s false report comes at an already big moment for the high court, as it has handed down several major decisions on Tuesday, including striking down President Donald Trump\u2019s attempt to do away with birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Alito, 76, is the court\u2019s second-oldest justice and has not made any indication that he is retiring. Earlier this year, however, he was secretly rushed to a hospital after falling ill during a Federalist Society dinner. He was evaluated and given fluids for dehydration before returning to his home in Virginia that night, CNN reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He has long been seen as one of the next justices to retire. If he were to step down, Trump would be given his fourth opportunity to nominate someone to the high court.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2564\">Megyn Kelly Melts Down at Trump Justices for Killing His Birthright Plot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NPR mistake came a day after the oldest Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, 78, was spotted at the Capitol on Monday, with many speculating he was seeing the in-house doctor. Thomas had a health scare in 2022, when he was admitted to the hospital for an infection with \u201cflu-like symptoms,\u201d though his transfer was only disclosed two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Totenberg has spent decades covering the Supreme Court and had a number of scoops in previous years. In 1991 she was the first to report that Anita Hill accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, leading the Senate Judiciary Committee to reopen its confirmation hearings for Thomas. In 1987, her revelation that Ronald Reagan nominee Douglas Ginsburg had used marijuana cost him his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>But her close friendship with the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg led to questions over whether she crossed ethical boundaries by failing to report the truth on her health. Many critics said her relationship made it difficult for her to accurately report on Ginsburg\u2019s physical fitness for the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Until NPR admitted Totenberg was wrong, there had been speculation that the now-deleted story appears to have been prewritten, a tactic commonly used in journalism, in which reporters write stories in anticipation of major news events, especially deaths, before they happen. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Several other outlets have made similar prewrite publishing errors. <\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the website of Radio France Internationale mistakenly published around 100 prewritten obituaries for prominent names, including Queen Elizabeth II. In 2022, Bloomberg News published a headline titled \u201cRussia invades Ukraine\u201d before Russia had actually done so. <\/p>\n<p>More recently, CNN erroneously published an article and a video titled \u201cRemembering the life of Michael J. Fox.\u201d <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fox, who is still alive, responded online, saying, \u201cHow do you react when you turn on the TV and CNN is reporting your death?\u201d adding \u201cI thought the world was ending, but apparently it\u2019s just me and I\u2019m ok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2562\">Missing Republican Finally Explains Three-Month Paid Absence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has dramatically retracted a news story announcing that conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito would retire\u2014and admitted its reporting was wrong. 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