Summary
Justice Samuel Alito confirmed speaking with Trump hours before Trump’s legal team filed an emergency Supreme Court request to block his Friday sentencing in a hush money case, has drawn scrutiny due to ethical concerns.
Alito denied discussing Trump’s legal matters or pending cases.
Trump seeks to delay sentencing, arguing it disrupts the presidency and national security.
The Supreme Court requested prosecutors’ responses by Thursday morning and will decide by Friday.
A justice tasked to decide a criminal’s fate having a friendly chit-chat with said criminal would have been instantly invalidating for the justice and the criminal.
Yet here we are today, it’s just meh news.
That high-pitched whirring sound you’re hearing is the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves at 15,000 RPM.
A seemingly endless supply of renewable energy.