Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with Donald Trump mere hours before he filed a request for the court to intervene in his New York hush-money case.
The president-elect's legal team filed an emergency application to the highest court on Wednesday, asking the justices to intervene ahead of Trump's upcoming sentencing hearing. The filing asked the court to act to "prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency." Though Alito admitted to speaking with the president-elect on Tuesday, he said they did not discuss his case.
