President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, center, and Samuel Alito, right. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool/AFP via Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
"Despite what some people may think, this is a man who has never thought about this job from a political perspective," a person close to Alito said to the newspaper.
"The idea that he’s going to retire for political considerations is not consistent with who he is," this person added.
Alito was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2006 by President George W. Bush.
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U.S. Supreme Court: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Investigators on the Jan. 6 select committee revealed that the justice's wife, Ginni Thomas, sent text messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to challenge Donald Trump's 2020 election loss.
Fox News Digital's Breanne Deppisch and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
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