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Irked Alito breaks silence on retirement rumors and mortality as 'vultures' circle

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito declared he will serve another term and refused to rule out a "high correlation" between his rulings and what President Donald Trump wants. Alito, 76, made the remarks in a rare summertime interview with the Wall Street Journal at his Washington chambers, a month after an erroneous NPR report set off a wave of speculation that he was stepping down. The interview answered two questions that had shadowed the justice's 20th full term: Would he retire while Trump and a Republican Senate could lock in a younger replacement? And was he simply voting the way Trump wanted? "Obviously I'm here for another term," Alito said. On the partisanship charge, he was equally blunt. "I vote in every case the way I think the case should be decided," Alito told the Journal. "If that means a high correlation with what Trump wants, fine. If it means zero correlation with what Trump wants, fine as well," he said. "I think it's wrong, it's absolutely wrong, to say, 'Well, you

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