Rumors swirl Supreme Court justice telegraphed plans to step down

More Supreme Court watchers buzzed Friday that a conservative Supreme Court justice may have telegraphed his plans to step down.

Justice Samuel Alito may be quietly plotting his retirement before the 2026 midterms, legal experts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern wrote Friday for Slate. They joined another prominent legal expert in pointing to clues piling up.

Notably, Alito's memoir, "So Ordered: An Originalist's View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country," drops Oct.