Justice Alito confirms call with Donald Trump as Supreme Court mulls appeal

https://www.newsweek.com/justice-alito-call-trump-supreme-court-sentencing-hush-money-2012130

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  2. By Ewan Palmer – News Reporter:

    Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with Donald Trump one day before the president-elect’s lawyers filed a petition asking the court to halt the Republican’s upcoming hush money sentencing.

    Newsweek has contacted the Trump transition team and the Supreme Court for comment via email.

    Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/justice-alito-call-trump-supreme-court-sentencing-hush-money-2012130](https://www.newsweek.com/justice-alito-call-trump-supreme-court-sentencing-hush-money-2012130)

  4. they don’t even bother trying to hide the corruption anymore.

  7. This is definitely worse than the Clinton meeting on the airport Tarmac.

  8. If any of us conspired to pervert the course of justice as often as this mob, we’d face serious consequences. Their blatant and unchallenged corruption is nothing short of staggering.

  9. When the fuck will someone grow some balls, impeach the supreme court and charge them with obstruction?

    They have already effectively removed the 14th amendment.

    They have already legalized bribes in terms of gratitudity, and lobbying fees, including to both foreign nationals, and i shit you not, registered foreign agents.

  10. The Extreme Court strikes again. Most corrupt court in American History. Alito was checking in to see who he should go to for his million $$$ check.

  12. Alito and Thomas aren’t even trying to hide their corruption anymore.

    I bit Alito’s going on a nice, all expense paid, luxury vacation soon.

  13. Welcome to the new normal, where a defendant seeks out personal favors from the supreme Court of the United States. These fucking justices have not ethics and deserve every ounce of criticism they receive. Hell they even deserve frightful encounters with us regular poor people.

  14. Fuck these people.

    America had fallen, we just have crashed yet. 

  15. The open corruption is one thing but flat out lying to Americans and expecting us to just believe it may be even more insulting.

  16. Engaging in *ex parte* communication with a judge involved in your pending case is generally a huge problem.

    On the other hand this requires oversight on the court itself. Seeing as the Supremes are making up their own rules, such oversight is highly unlikely.

  17. No justice being obstructed there, then.

    Whew. What a relief.

  19. The SCOTUS is in its own little world where they don’t even acknowledge the perception that they’re corrupt and politicized. This happened hours before Trump urged SCOTUS to intervene in the hush money sentencing.

    From Alito:
    “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.”

    If that’s so then they should release the transcript of the call. Sounds like he’s got nothing to hide so why not dispel everyone’s perception that SCOTUS are a bunch of right wing political hacks without a shred of integrity left in their entire bodies.

  20. Our system is so broken and millions of Americans voted to see it further destroyed

  22. My only hope at this point is that Samuel Alito goes down in history alongside Roger Taney as the most destructive Supreme Court Justice in US History

    Shoulda just confirmed George Bush’s personal lawyer.

  24. This is so goddamn infuriating. Someone needs to throw somebody in jail. Both those motherfuckers isn’t this against the law. I can’t take it anymore.

  25. > The timing of the call has reignited concerns about ~~potential~~ ethics and protocol violations involving the nation’s highest court.

    Fixed it for them.

  26. Pretty shady appearance. That bothers neither one of them.

  27. He’s got SCOTUS on speed dial, he’s completely compromised the Judiciary and made a mockery of our system of Checks and Balances.

  28. He’s got the Supreme Court, White House, senate and house. Now Elon has made his move for the biggest hostile corporate takeover ever.

  29. He acts like the Supreme Court is his personal lawyer. Blatantly clear what’s going on. Funny how he never seems to seek counsel from Sotomayor.

  30. The whole issue is these conversations shouldn’t even be happening in the first place. Absolutely would not happen to a normal middle/low class citizen where if they were found guilty of crimes would be able to call the judge and have a conversation.

    The whole supreme court needs to go, I am a 39m and I know I’ll never fully trust this “inferior court” ever again.

  32. Isn’t that meddling or something? Does anything count as illegal anymore?

  33. One set of laws for them and another set for just folks! But hey, the orange guy is who they elected. We have become a stupid fu@king country!

  34. On their knees, mouth open, tongues out, waiting for daddy.

  35. “And? What the fuck are you going to do about it? Write another editorial?” -Alito

  36. Remember that this is the same justice who was bribed by billionaire gifts (but hid it), flew Christian Nationalist flags (but blamed his wife) and had “created reasonable doubt about his impartiality” (about Trump, who else?) and that “his recusal in these matters is both necessary and required” (but he refused)

    Alito kicks up ethics questions with new undisclosed gifts from billionaire donors
    Justice Samuel Alito is the latest justice to come under scrutiny for failing to disclose luxury trips gifted to him by billionaire conservative donors.

    https://www.courthousenews.com/alito-kicks-up-ethics-questions-with-new-undisclosed-gifts-from-billionaire-donors/

    Samuel Alito: Top US judge mocks world leaders over abortion ruling

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62344354

    Alito rejects call to skip Trump cases after flags row

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnll5z5yendo

  37. Totally normal for judges to have private calls with defendants.. yep, nothing to see here.

  38. Must be nice to have private access to judges deciding your future. Fucking traitors.

  40. Guys, this isn’t an issue and is being blown way out of proportion. Alito was just confirming his address for where the check needs to be sent.

  41. Would be a shame if someone had a recording of that call and leaked it

  42. Imagine being the democrat elected members of the Supreme Court… seems to be an utterly pointless job currently

  43. It is insane to think that a non-political body is communicating directly with someone whose cases will come before the court. This is torches and pitchforks type stuff, naked corruption.

  44. There exists in a democracy a certain degree of “willingness,” on the part of officials, bureaucrats, candidates and, even, citizens (plus others) to play by the rules.

    You can mandate behaviors — and we do, and we must — but the more you mandate the less “democratic,” the system becomes (which is at the heart of conservative complaints).

    When a player like Trump enters the fray — someone who refuses to play by the rules and whose violation of the rules seeks to serve anti-democratic and corrupt behaviors — the system breaks down because it is not designed to exclude such a player. It depends on other players and, most importantly voters, to decline to “play along.”

    And, playing along (as so many MAGAts are doing today) while disrespectful of the rules is not automatically or, in some cases even practically, a violation of the rules or laws.

    Democracy and self-representation exists and operates in a grey area that expects, but has a hard time enforcing, fair play and honor.

    Sure, if you break a rule or a law you can be punished, but if you decide to play an entirely different game, the system can be befuddled into submission.

    The worst thing Trump has done is to expose that weakness in democracy…if you have no honor, no willingness to be contained by rules — never mind the laws — and you refuse to be “defeating, by either you opponents or the system itself, , democracy can really turn out to be defenseless. This is because to defend democracy against such an out of control player, almost by necessity, requires becoming less democratic.

    It’s a damn hard Catch 22 to defeat.

    And when others, either out of weakness or corruption, “play along,” with the out-of-control player the democratic systems
    start to break down in ways that accelerate with each capitulation.

    Having been rejected by the natural flow towards “liberalism,” (call it democratic entropy and societal ambiguity) Conservatives have given up adhering to self-enforced democratic rules and behaviors and with each day they hasten democracy’s demise in America. They think they’re defending democracy by blindly they are destroying it by ignoring it (and its fundamental dependence on players playing by the rules).

  46. the corruption is so outrageously blatant now. hard to believe this is real life.

  47. What the actual fuck?! And we can be damn sure that neither of those PoSs think Alito should recuse himself.

  48. “Alito denied that the pair discussed the petition from Trump’s lawyers and that he was “not even aware” that such an application would be filed. ”

    Really, Sam? You really had no idea that Trump (or the State of New York) might appeal to SCOTUS depending on what NY’s high court ruled? You had no fucking clue whatsoever that was a possibility?

    As I tell my children: At least make your lies believable dude.

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