The justice spoke to President-elect Donald Trump on the phone hours before Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop his sentencing.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with President-elect Donald Trump about a former law clerk the day before Trump went to the high court in a push to delay the sentencing in his New York hush-money case.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confirmed on Wednesday that he talked with President-elect Donald Trump just days before possibly ruling on his immunity claims connected with his New York hush

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump by phone this week in support of a former law clerk who is seeking a job in the incoming administration – but the justice said he did not discuss Trump’s pending effort to delay his sentencing.

On Tuesday, just hours before Donald Trump ’s legal team asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and pause his sentencing today in the New York case involving hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, the president-elect and the conservative justice talked on the phone.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to President-elect Trump Tuesday to recommend a former law clerk for a job in the new administration, ABC News has learned.

By some measures, the controversy surrounding the president-elect's recent chat with the Supreme Court justice is intensifying, not dissipating.

The justice said that the call was a job reference for one of his former clerks and that the request to stay the president-elect’s sentencing did not come up.

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MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance on Friday hammered Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for taking a phone call from President-elect Donald Trump shortly before he was due to issue a ruling on Trump's criminal sentencing in the Manhattan hush-money case.

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