Supreme Court docket Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday confirmed a name with President-elect Trump, and he stated they didn’t focus on an emergency software from Trump to dam his upcoming sentencing in his New York hush cash case.
“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 stated in a press release.
“I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon,” Alito added. “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.”
The president-elect’s latest emergency software request asks the Supreme Court docket to halt the hush cash prosecution from transferring ahead till his appeals implicating presidential immunity are resolved. Decide Juan Merchan has set Trump’s sentencing for the hush cash case for Friday.
“President Trump is currently engaged in the most crucial and sensitive tasks of preparing to assume the Executive Power in less than two weeks, all of which are essential to the United States’ national security and vital interests,” Trump’s attorneys wrote.
The primary outlet to report the Trump and Alito name was ABC Information.
Alito additionally stated in his assertion that in his name with the president-elect, there was no discuss of “any other matter that is pending or might in the future come before the Supreme Court or any past Supreme Court decisions” of which Trump is a component.
In July, Alito was one of many six members of the Supreme Court docket concerned in a ruling that decided that core presidential powers are immune from felony prosecution, handing a victory to Trump.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump transition group, Levi, the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace and the New York State Unified Court docket System’s Workplace of Public Data for remark.
