Alito, one of six conservative justices on the nine-member Supreme Court, confirmed he took a call from Trump on Tuesday, one day before Trump's lawyers filed a petition asking the court to halt his New York sentencing scheduled for Friday.

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 said he and Donald Trump did not discuss the request during their secret talk.

The Supreme Court justice confirmed the call with the president-elect but said they did not discuss the 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

Gabe Roth, an advocate for government transparency, and GOP strategist Ron Bonjean, discuss Trump's phone call to Supreme Court justice Alito ahead of his sentencing in NY hush money case.

WASHINGTON − Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke to Donald Trump by phone on Tuesday to recommend a former law clerk for a job in a government position, adding he and ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito came under fire amid reports Wednesday that he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump to recommend one of his former law clerks for a White House job ...

Hours before the petition was filed, the president-elect spoke on the phone with Samuel Alito, who clarified that the impending appeal was not mentioned during the call.

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

WASHINGTON — 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, the justice said Wednesday.

Justice Samuel Alito's saying he was unaware Donald Trump planned to file a petition with the Supreme Court to halt his hush money sentencing before taking a call with the president-elect has been ...