Chuck DarwinInformation regarding the health of the justices, is often difficult to obtain.
The Supreme Court’s public information office previously declined to reveal that
Chief Justice John Roberts had fallen at a country club near his suburban Maryland home in June 2020,
injured his head and taken by ambulance to a hospital until it was reported by the Washington Post.
If Alito were to decide to step down, the opening would offer President Donald Trump a fourth appointment to the nine-member bench.
Trump named three justices with lifetime tenure in his first term.
Close friends of Alito have told CNN that he has contemplated retirement, but that no decision seems imminent.
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Exclusive: Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital last month in previously undisclosed incident
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital after becoming ill last month at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia, according to people with knowledge of the March 20 incident.
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