Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires

By NPR Staff Enlarge this image Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images Editor's note: Earlier today, we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. Neither Alito nor the court's public information office has announced his retirement, and we have retracted the story.