Does NPR's Nina Totenberg have advanced knowledge that Justice Samuel Alito is about to retire? The post NPR’s Nina Totenberg Reveals Why She Posted a Story Claiming Alito Was Retiring – Then Quickly Retracted appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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A MAGA lawmaker sparked outrage after he made a wild claim about the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela during an interview on CNN. Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), who is known as one of Trump's close allies in Congress, told CNN's Boris Sanchez on Tuesday that the Trump administration bears no responsibility to account for the more than 150 people recently deported to Venezuela who are now missing because the hotel they were staying in collapsed. The deportation flight landed in Venezuela about 24 hours before the earthquakes began, according to reports. "It's just an act of God," Gimenez said. That comment didn't sit well with many political analysts and observers, who shared their reactions on social media."Quite the excuse," Martina Navratilova, a former professional tennis champion, posted on X. John Jackson, a military veteran and political critic, posted on X that Gimenez had "betrayed the American and Venezuelan people, always blindly following Trump into corrupt foreign policy disasters." "The conservative Christian position here is that God wanted the people Republicans kicked out of our country—for no good reason—to die," Hemant Mehta, a former "Jeopardy!" champion, posted on X. "Carlos should be concerned about that last name of his that he's toting around in Trump's America," Russ DiBello, an actor and political critic, posted on Bluesky. CNN: Hours before the earthquake in Venezuela, close to 150 people on a deportation flight were at the epicenter and the hotel they were in collapsed. Many remain missing. Do you think DHS has responsibility to account for those missing?REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ: No I don't. It's just an act of God. [image or embed]— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) June 30, 2026 at 12:46 PM
On Tuesday morning, amidst the release of several consequential Supreme Court rulings, NPR ran a story stating that Justice Samuel Alito had just announced his retirement — but he hadn’t. The news outlet quickly retracted the story, issuing an apology. But according to one DC insider, this minor media incident may have in fact revealed Alito’s impending retirement, which would have major implications for the future of the court and country. “Given that the Speaker had a statement ready to go, and that Nina Totenberg is the dean of the SCOTUS press corps, who is a logical recipient of this big retirement story, this looks like an embargo broken to me,” posted Douglas Farrar, Former Director of Public Affairs at the Federal Trade Commission. “I expect we'll see Alito announce his retirement soon.”Farrar was referring to three key points. First, the retracted NPR story by Nina Totenberg. Second, the rumor that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had sent an email to staff and stakeholders with the subject “Thank you, Justice Alito.” And finally, the concept of a “media embargo,” in which a piece of news is shared with select media outlets with the understanding that it won’t be revealed until an agreed-upon time, allowing journalists to prepare their stories. As Farrar suggests, the NPR story and Johnson email could both be the result of a broken embargo, and Alito’s actual announcement is soon to come.If that is the case, it means two things. First, and less importantly, Totenberg and someone working in Johnson’s communications team have a lot of explaining to do, and they are unlikely to be trusted with scoops in the future. But more importantly, if Alito is in fact leaving, that means President Donald Trump will appoint his replacement — a move he would be eager to press with the midterms looming. If the Republican Party takes the losses that are projected and loses its majority, the Democrats will be significantly better positioned to oppose confirmation of his nominees. If Alito is indeed retiring, it would represent a strategic move on the part of conservatives, affording Trump the opportunity to select his fourth judge rather than leaving the possibility open to a Democratic successor were Alito to retire or die during a future term. This ensures that Republicans will shape the court for a generation and have a major impact on how the judiciary drives policy for decades to come. While this certainly represents a threat to the Democratic agenda, interestingly enough, rumors of Alito’s retirement came as the Supreme Court issued a consequential ruling in which three conservative justices — including two appointed by Trump — slapped down the president’s executive order attacking birthright citizenship.
Justice Samuel Alito expressed discontent with the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision to strike down the Trump administration’s restrictions on birthright citizenship, calling the ruling both “one of the most important decisions” in the court’s history and “a serious mistake” in a dissenting opinion. The high court ruled 6-3 that an executive order signed by President Trump on…
'Every step of this story is incorrect," Alito wrote. 'The Declaration of Independence repudiated the foundation on which the British rule was based.'
A Fox guest called Justice Samuel Alito an "anchor baby" on live television Tuesday, but the attack is almost certainly false.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that day to uphold birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump's executive order to restrict it. Alito was one of three justices who dissented.Charles Kuck, an immigration attorney with Kuck Baxter Immigration, was on LiveNOW from Fox, a sibling channel of Fox News, discussing the ruling when he made the claim."So, yes, I get where the opponents of this are coming from, but somebody pointed out to me something really interesting today: Justice Alito, who wrote his own dissent in this case, is, in fact, an anchor baby," Kuck said. "His parents were not U.S. citizens when he was born, much like Ted Cruz and other prominent Republicans who are immigrants or the children of immigrants. This amendment is what really makes us America."In his dissent, Alito argued that children born to noncitizen parents are automatically claimed as nationals by their parents' home country, making them "subject to a foreign power" rather than the United States.Alito's father arrived in the U.S. from Italy as an infant in 1914. By the time his son was born in 1950, he held a master's degree from Rutgers and worked as a public high school teacher in New Jersey, a job that has long required U.S. citizenship.Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was born in Calgary, Canada, to a mother who was already a U.S. citizen.Kuck made clear he supports the ruling itself."So I, for one, applaud the Supreme Court. I wish it were a 9-0 decision, but we'll take what we can get," he insisted. "Now the law is clear, and we can move on, hopefully, to fixing our broken immigration system instead of arguing about a constitutional amendment that was settled 160 years ago."Secretary of State Marco Rubio does fit the definition of "anchor baby" that Kuck used.Rubio was born in Miami in 1971 to Cuban immigrant parents, according to Newsweek. His parents didn't become U.S. citizens until 1975, four years after he was born.
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship in a 5-4 decision. The post Thomas and Alito Fume Over Birthright Citizenship Ruling in Blistering Dissents appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Congress explicitly rejected Roberts' new feudalism in the same year the Citizenship Clause was ratified.