WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 19: Nina Totenberg attends the DEADLOCKED - DC Screening at MPA Screening Room on September 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Larry French/Getty Images for Paramount+)
(TNND) — The NPR reporter who incorrectly reported that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring on Tuesday publicly apologized after the news outlet quickly retracted the story.
An editor's note in the now-deleted article said the report was pulled because "neither Alito nor the court's public information office has announced his retirement."
On NPR's "All Things Considered," veteran legal correspondent Nina Totenberg said she wrote a letter to Alito taking full responsibility for the mistake.
"Dear Justice Alito, there are no words to adequately apologize for today's error in reporting your retirement. It was entirely my fault. I 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 retirement announcements," Totenberg said, reading the letter aloud.
"I didn't hear the 's' on announcements, and 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't know what else to say, except that I am so, so sorry."
Alito, 76, was nominated to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush in 2006 and is a member of the court's conservative bloc.
The retirement rumor surfaced just months after the Supreme Court confirmed Alito received medical attention during a Federalist Society event in Philadelphia celebrating his 20 years on the bench. The court later said he was doing well.
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