As has been well-reported, there is a long list of apparent ethical failings by certain members of the court over the last two years — mostly Justice Thomas but also Justices Alito and Sonia Sotomayor.

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.

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.

The Supreme Court justice said he was "not even aware" that the president-elect would file a sentencing petition the next day.

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 Donald Trump by phone on Tuesday to recommend a former law clerk for a job in the new administration, ABC News reported on Wednesday. "William Levi,

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,