The last week has been pretty action-packed on the Supreme Court front, with numerous rulings handed down, ranging from a win for the Trump administration last Thursday on the issue of terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian nationals to the SCOTUS ruling on Tuesday "that girls' and women's sports may be restricted to girls and women."
“[C]onsistent with Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause, we hold that the States may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females. They may determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports based on biological sex," Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote. "The Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of women’s and girls’ sports throughout America."
And though the outcome of the birthright citizenship case didn't go the way President Trump wanted, he is still in "go mode" on the topic, writing on Truth Social that "we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process."
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But amid another big day of rulings, there was also a bit of high drama over at NPR, whose notoriously biased "legal affairs" reporter, Nina Totenberg, ran with a story that claimed one of the conservative justices on the court, Samuel Alito, was retiring:
— Joe Chalfant (@JoeChalfant) June 30, 2026
Oh boy. NPR reported that Justice Alito was retiring, then retracted it 10 minutes later, saying it was “published in error.” pic.twitter.com/ljqd9udn9a
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 30, 2026
CNN's media hall monitor Brian Stelter, who would have been apoplectic had it been Fox News erroneously announcing the retirement of one of the liberal justices, claimed it was a pre-write that had been accidentally published:
NPR has retracted its false report about Justice Alito retiring. It appears that someone published a prewrite accidentally. "Editors Note: This story has been taken down. It was published in error."
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 30, 2026
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik shared editor-in-chief Tommy Evans' statement, where an alleged "misunderstanding" was said to have happened. Evans also revealed that Totenberg had reached out to Alito in an effort to apologize:
Full statement from NPR Editor in Chief Tommy Evans on retracted Alito report pic.twitter.com/MBNn3jI48D
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) June 30, 2026
Because Totenberg has been reporting on SCOTUS goings on for nearly four decades, there is speculation on X as to whether the story was wishful thinking, false in its entirety, or if an Alito retirement truly is imminent and the story simply was fired off ahead of schedule:
According to Wayback Machine, the NPR article announcing Justice Alito's retirement was supposed to be published on Friday. pic.twitter.com/jAic44FhU4
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) June 30, 2026
Presumably, Totenberg will clarify this later today. We'll keep you posted.
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