Trump and Justice Alito spoke just hours before urging Supreme Court to block hush money sentencing
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The president-elect called the conservative justice the night before a last-ditch demand to stop his sentencing in New York. Donald Trump spoke with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito hours before the president-elect urged the nation’s high court to block his imminent sentencing date in his hush money trial.
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“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,” according to Alito. “We also did not discuss any other matter that is pending or might in the future come before the Supreme Court or any past Supreme Court decisions involving the President-elect.”.
Trump — desperate to return to the White House with a clear record with the defeat of his criminal prosecutions — is set to enter office as the first criminally convicted president in U.S. history, unless the Supreme Court intervenes. He is scheduled to be sentenced by New York Justice Juan Merchan in Manhattan criminal court on January 10, more than eight months after a unanimous jury convicted him on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
The president-elect will be inaugurated 10 days later on January 20. The Supreme Court is also hearing oral arguments on Friday in a case to determine whether the federal government can ban the immensely popular social media app TikTok from operating in the United States. Trump asked the court to delay the impending ban, with his attorneys arguing that Trump “alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will” to resolve the issue.
