Alito says he spoke with Trump about former law clerk before Supreme Court filing in "hush money" case
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Wednesday that he had talked with Donald Trump about a job for one of his former law clerks in the president-elect's administration a day before Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay the sentencing in his New York "hush money" case.
Alito said in a statement that the clerk, William Levi, had asked him to take a call from the president-elect "regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position." The conservative justice also said that he and Trump "did not discuss any other matter that is pending or might in the future come before the Supreme Court or any past Supreme Court decisions involving the President-elect."
"We did not discuss the emergency application he filed today, and indeed, I was not even aware at the time of our conversation that such an application would be filed," Alito said.
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