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NPR\u2019s Nina Totenberg sent a letter this week apologizing to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. for wrongly reporting that he had announced his retirement.<\/p>

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Ms. Totenberg, who has covered the Supreme Court for nearly five decades, reported Tuesday \u2014 the final day of rulings on cases argued this term \u2014 that Justice Alito was departing after 20 years on the bench.<\/p>\n

She quickly retracted the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cDear Justice Alito, there are no words to adequately apologize for today\u2019s error in reporting your retirement. It was entirely my fault,\u201d she said in her letter, posted on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cI rushed out of the courtroom after the opinion announcements, and when I realized that the usual rush of folks after a few minutes had not happened, I asked somebody what was going on inside, to which the answer was, \u2019retirement announcements.\u2019 I didn\u2019t hear the \u2019s\u2019 on \u2019announcements,\u2019 and I assumed something no reporter should ever do, that you were retiring. It was the worst professional mistake of my more than 50 years in journalism. I could go on, but I don\u2019t know what else to say, except that I am so, so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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Her reporting went online and on NPR\u2019s air.<\/p>\n

Ms. Totenberg was likely swept up in the usual guessing game that occurs at the end of each court sitting, when retirements are often announced.<\/p>\n

Rumors that one of the court\u2019s long-serving GOP appointees might call it quits have circulated through Washington for months.<\/p>

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President Trump told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he is \u201ccertainly prepared\u201d should an opening arise.<\/p>\n

Justice Alito has his first book coming out in October: \u201cSo Ordered: An Originalist\u2019s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for retirement, it doesn\u2019t seem so. It\u2019s been reported that he hired law clerks for the upcoming term, which begins in October and runs through next summer.<\/p>

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