Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump by phone on Jan. 7 to recommend a former law clerk for a government position but did not discuss the upcoming emergency motion or any other court matters.
Alito’s phone call with Trump took place just one day before the president-elect’s lawyers filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on Jan. 8 seeking to postpone his sentencing in the New York case, which is scheduled to take place on Jan. 10 in Manhattan.
“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,” Alito said in a statement to ABC News. “I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon. 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.”…