Justice Samuel Alito Health Scare Sparks Retirement Talk After Philadelphia Treatment for Trump

Samuel Alito returned to his Supreme Court duties following medical treatment for dehydration after falling ill at a Federalist Society dinner.The health scare involving the seventy-six-year-old justice has fueled rumors about his retirement to allow Donald Trump to name a successor.Court officials confirmed that the conservative justice received fluids in Philadelphia but did not require an overnight stay in the hospital.Any vacancy would permit the president to appoint a fourth justice and cement a right-wing majority before the next election cycle.
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