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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has confirmed that he is considering retirement, leaving open the possibility that he could leave after next year’s term and hand another nomination to President Donald Trump.
Alito said in excerpts of a CBS News interview released Friday that he thought about retiring this year and will do so again in 2027.
“It’s something that I think that somebody at my age has to think about every term,” the 76-year-old said in the interview scheduled to air Monday. “But I thought that I could still make a valuable contribution, which is why I became a justice and a judge in the first place.”
Alito’s interview, the first in a number of expected appearances to coincide with the release of a book about his judicial philosophy, raises the possibility that Trump, whose judicial picks shifted the Supreme Court to the right, may get an opportunity to nominate a fourth justice.
The president, who expressed regret in a recent interview about several nominees who ruled against his administration on some issues, would have a harder time getting a fourth pick through the Senate if Democrats win control in the midterms.
Alito, in the CBS interview, pushed back on concerns that the timing of his retirement and his replacement could potentially unravel his work on the bench.
“It’s too hard to predict what the political situation will be and what any president might do with respect to a replacement,” he said.
Alito also defended his majority opinion in June 2022 that struck down Roe v. Wade and overturned the constitutional protections for abortion that had prevailed for decades. The decision closely matched one that had leaked a month earlier.
“We didn’t know it when we produced the draft that was leaked, but it required courage to go ahead with that because of the implications,” he said.
He said the decision resulted in the loss of old friendships.
“That’s something you have to live with,” he said, adding, “It’s part of the job that you’re going to displease people by making decisions on controversial matters, because one side or the other is going to really dislike you because of the decisions.”
This article originally appeared on Politico at https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/02/alito-supreme-court-retirement-01105789By Maria Tsvetkova
ITHACA, New York, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Cornell University student Sophia Riley Sim skipped classes this week, consumed by allegations in a lawsuit that several members of a fraternity raped a young woman in 2024 and troubled by how her university handled the case.
"Cornell has failed our community through its lack of accountability, transparency, and failure to address the state of the Cornell student body at this time," Sim, a junior, said at a public hearing on sexual assault organized by Cornell's Student Assembly on Thursday.
"There has been a lack of meaningful communication from university leadership, administrators, and faculty."
The Ivy League school has defended its handling of the matter, saying it launched a comprehensive investigation and barred the Chi Phi fraternity involved in the alleged assault from campus. The school said it imposed a range of disciplinary measures, including expulsions.
It did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment.
The hearing, held in one of Cornell's historic halls, came days after the allegations became public with the filing of a civil lawsuit and the announcement that a criminal investigation would be reopened.
The case has reignited scrutiny of how law enforcement and universities handle sexual assault complaints, with students questioning whether processes are enough to protect them. It has also drawn the attention of New York state officials, who have appointed a special prosecutor to investigate.
FEELING UNSAFE
At the Assembly hearing, speakers recounted experiences with sexual assault, broke down in tears and criticized the response of the prestigious university.
The Student Assembly - which represents Cornell's undergraduate students and can make proposals to the university's bodies or officers - unanimously approved a resolution calling on Cornell administrators to provide a full account of how the investigation was handled. It also asked the university to disclose any disciplinary measures imposed on the accused students, and publish annual reports on the outcomes of any future sexual misconduct cases.
Organizers asked that many of the dozens of speakers at the hearing not be identified or recorded.
One student said she had worked all her life to be accepted to Cornell and now felt that it had not been worth it. Several others said they did not feel safe on the 2,300-acre campus in New York's Finger Lakes region.
Thirty-five percent of undergraduate women reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact involving force or incapacitation since entering Cornell, according to a university survey conducted in 2025 and published on its website. That figure was up from 20% in 2021.
"WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT"
The lawsuit alleges fraternity members supplied the woman with alcohol, marijuana and ketamine before sexually assaulting her after she became incapacitated. It also alleges Cornell failed to adequately punish some of the accused students and allowed some to seek reduced penalties by writing essays. Cornell denied that essays were the only punishment meted out.
The New York Times, citing internal Cornell documents, said the men all denied any wrongdoing, with some saying the sex was consensual and others denying participation.
Cornell students have scheduled a rally for Monday to call for additional measures to protect victims.
Jane Wang, a public policy major, said she had reported a sexual assault to the university and that the process caused additional distress.
"In the midst of all of my mental, physical, and emotional recovery from the assault, I was also met with an abundance of paperwork, very little instruction on how to navigate it, and no follow up from our office about an outcome," she said.
The Ivy League school said in a statement on its website that it could not provide full information regarding individual students and disciplinary outcomes because of restrictions imposed by privacy laws.
"Our adherence to privacy laws should not be interpreted as indifference to the seriousness of the conduct at issue," the statement said.
A handful of other female students told the hearing they had been sexually assaulted on Cornell's campus in the past, without sharing details.
Saanya Agarwal, Cornell University's student women's issues representative, said the findings of the 2025 survey on sexual assaults were unacceptable.
"Clearly, this is an issue our campus and campuses throughout the United States... it's something that we're not going to accept," said Agarwal. "We are going to fight."
(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova; editing by Paul Thomasch and Deepa Babington)
This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cornell-rape-allegations-spark-outrage-172822680.htmlCorrection: An earlier version of this story mistakenly said the emergency court hearing request was granted by a judge.
An Oct. 2 emergency court filing seeks to preserve all evidence related to Tennessee's failed execution of Christa Pike, arguing the state botched the lethal injection procedure.
A judge was considering the request shortly after it was filed. While an unsigned document for the hearing was filed in the court system, no date or time was immediately listed.
Pike was set to be executed by the Tennessee Department of Correction on Sept. 30, but survived two doses of pentobarbital. The document, filed in Davidson County Chancery Court on Oct. 2, revealed more details about Pike's condition. It said she is intubated, on a ventilator and unconscious, and that both her arms were swollen, burned and blistered. As of the night of Oct. 1, Pike was still in critical condition at a Nashville-area hospital, the motion said.
"Hospital staff are working to save Ms. Pike's life and to clear the pentobarbital from her system," the Oct. 2 motion stated.
Pike was convicted in 1996 for the first-degree murder and torture of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville.
Pentobarbital is the single drug required under the state's lethal injection protocol. The failed execution attempt came after a complex legal back-and-forth delayed her execution several hours that day, which was originally set for 10 a.m. Media witnesses of the procedure said the blinds to the observation room were opened and closed multiple times between around 7:40 p.m. and 8 p.m. As they were shuffled out of the room at 8:53 p.m., media witnesses said they could still hear Pike breathing.
"Apparently at no point did any member of the execution team realize that the IV lines were not correctly placed or that the veins had blown and that the pentobarbital was, in whole or in part, entering Ms. Pike's body," the emergency motion stated. "Instead of remedying this failure, TDOC elected to prepare a backup set of syringes (if they were not also prepared earlier that day) and then administered another lethal dose of pentobarbital."
The motion said the state committed a "manifest violation" of Pike's constitutional rights and called its actions "reckless" and "incompetent."
After the attempted execution, the state said that it had "followed every step" of its protocol. TDOC officials said the protocol did not allow them to perform additional procedures.
In an Oct. 1 news conference, Pike's attorney Randy Spivey said she was alive, in critical condition and receiving medical care.
"We don't have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment, but we do know that she is alive right now and receiving life-saving medical care," Spivey said.
No other information on Pike's condition was available as of 2 p.m. Oct. 2.
Pike and her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp beat Slemmer to death on Jan. 12, 1995. Pike was 18 at the time, while Shipp was 17. Both were convicted of first-degree murder the next year.
Slemmer was born and raised in Orange Park, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida. She was known for computer skills and her volunteer efforts, including helping out with painting her school and during Special Olympics competitions.
At the time of the murder, Pike said she thought Slemmer was romantically interested in Shipp. The couple lured Slemmer to a Knoxville park, then beat and tortured her. A pentagram was also carved into Slemmer's body. Pike delivered the fatal blow. Investigators said Pike later bragged about the murder and showed part of Slemmer's skull to others.
A third person, then-18-year-old Shadolla Peterson, was arrested but given probation after agreeing to testify against Pike and Shipp.
Tennessee's history of execution failure, issues
Pike's survival of state-administered lethal injection drugs appeared to be unprecedented in the modern history of the U.S. death penalty. Medical experts told The Tennessean that a problem with Pike's IV or the delivery of the pentobarbital is among the most likely explanations for her survival, though exactly what happened remains unknown.
The failed execution is expected to intensify ongoing litigation over Tennessee's lethal injection procedures. Pike's attorneys had raised concerns before the execution about her thrombocytosis, a blood condition they argued could make lethal injection unnecessarily painful. They also questioned the state's ability to establish reliable IV access.
"Her concerns were called 'speculation,'" the Oct. 2 emergency motion stated. "They were laughed off, scoffed at, and dismissed. In the words of one media witness: we have a lot of questions, and the Department of Correction has a lot of answers that it needs to provide to the public about what happened here. We agree."
In May, execution personnel repeatedly tried to establish IV access for death row prisoner Tony Carruthers but could not properly place the second line required under the state's protocol. Dr. Mark Fowler then unsuccessfully attempted to place a central line. After Carruthers spent more than an hour strapped to the execution gurney, the state abandoned the execution.
Fowler had not placed a central line in at least 13 years, according to his deposition in litigation over Tennessee's execution procedures. Fowler testified that he had placed about a dozen central lines during his career and had no current hospital privileges. Fowler was also set to oversee Pike's execution on Sept. 30, according to news reports.
In 2022, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee temporarily halted executions after TDOC acknowledged it had failed to follow its own execution protocol. An independent investigation found systemic failures stretching back years, including the department's failure to consistently test lethal injection drugs for potency, purity and contaminants. The state resumed executions in 2025.
Lee halts Tennessee executions as TDOC scrutiny grows
Meanwhile, Lee has halted executions in Tennessee for the rest of the year and ordered a comprehensive, third-party review into what went wrong during Pike's attempted execution. TDOC has not said if any accountability measures will be taken or released details on what the investigation entails.
Lee called the failed execution “deeply disturbing” and said the review would seek to determine exactly what happened. The pause postpones the execution of Gary Wayne Sutton, which was scheduled for Dec. 3.
Tennessee's candidates for governor quickly distanced themselves from TDOC Commissioner Frank Strada after the failed execution of Pike. Democratic nominee Jerri Green called for his immediate resignation on Oct. 2. Representatives for Republican nominee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and independents David Hatley and Lauren Pinkston told the USA TODAY Network in Tennessee they would not allow Strada to keep his job if they are elected. The election is set for Nov. 3.
Knox News reporter Allie Feinberg contributed to this story.
Reach Tennessean reporter Rachel Wegner at RAwegner@tennessean.com. Reach Tennessean reporter Kelly Puente at KPuente@tennessean.com.
This story has been updated to add more information and to add video.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Christa Pike unconscious, burned and intubated, court filing shows
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