Alito Spoke With Trump Hours Before He Asked High Court To Delay Hush Money Sentencing
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"I was not even aware at the time of our conversation that such an application would be filed,” the Supreme Court justice said.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with President-elect Donald Trump this week, just hours before Trump’s attorneys asked the court to delay sentencing Friday in his New York hush money case.
Alito first confirmed that the pair spoke by phone in a statement to ABC News on Wednesday, saying he had taken a call from the president-elect to provide a job reference for a former law clerk.
“William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position,” the justice told the news network. “I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon.”
Alito said he did not talk to Trump about the emergency filing to call off sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to a porn actor before the 2016 election.
“Indeed, I was not even aware at the time of our conversation that such an application would be filed,” Alito said. “We also 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.”
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