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sentences that state something as happening or true
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3 of 16 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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tongues → sign → Hill
President Donald Trump suggested Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is weighing retirement in what appeared to be an extraordinary effort to pressure the 76-year-old jurist off the high court.
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what → suggest → court
Trump's remarks on Truth Social were short, but come after months of speculation and about Alito's possible retirement.
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remarks → come → retirement
Trump said Friday morning, before sharing the link to a report headlined, 'Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement.
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he → say → retirement
Alito, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, told CBS News in a rare public interview this month that he had weighed retiring this year, and said he plans to do so again in 2027.
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he → tell → 2027
'It’s something that I think that somebody at my age has to think about every term,' Alito said.
'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,' he added.
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he → ’ → place
Trump, for his part, has cheered Alito on social media as one of the 'Greatest of All Time' - even while using the same posts to excoriate the three Supreme Court justices he nominated to the high court just several years earlier.
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he → cheer → court
Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and his colleagues attend Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in 2025
President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett are seen on a balcony overlooking the South Lawn of the White House, shortly after she was sworn in to be a Supreme Court justice
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito stands in his chambers after a rare interview.
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Alito → attend → interview
Alito said he weighed retiring this year, and will do so before the 2027 term begins - prompting a remarkable response from Trump
Trump has assailed his three appointees - Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett - for ruling against him in major cases in his second term, including his use of an emergency powers law to impose sweeping global tariffs and his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
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Trump → say → citizenship
And he has not shied away from his desire to tap a fourth justice, should the opportunity arise.
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opportunity → shy → justice
Trump said in a Fox News interview earlier this year that he is 'prepared' to nominate up to three justices in the event of any vacancies.
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he → say → vacancies
'It’d be nice to say, now I have somebody for 40 years,' Trump told then-Fox News host Maria Bartiromo in an April interview.
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Trump → say → interview
He said then in that interview he was 'prepared' to appoint up to three justices to the high court, indicating that his administration has been vetting potential replacements.
Still, Trump has always couched his remarks with plenty of praise for Alito, and for Justice Clarence Thomas, another conservative fixture on the high court appointed by then-President George W. Bush who has also been the subject of some retirement speculation - though far less than Alito.
Alito has sided with the Trump administration on the vast majority of Supreme Court cases this year, including cases that his own nominees have blocked.
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nominees → say → that
Still, Alito stressed in the CBS News interview that his plans for the future are not in any way tied to politics or the current administration.
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plans → stress → politics
'It’s too hard to predict what the political situation will be and what any president might do with respect to a replacement,' Alito said.
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Alito → ’ → replacement
Neither the White House nor the Supreme Court's public affairs office immediately responded to the Daily Mail's request for comment.
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House → respond → comment
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