MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance on Friday hammered Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for taking a phone call from President-elect Donald Trump shortly before he was due to issue a ruling on Trump's criminal sentencing in the Manhattan hush-money case.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with Trump on Tuesday, while he has an appeal before the high court to block his New York sentencing.

It makes a mockery of the so-called ethics rules that they put in place, but that there's no mechanism to enforce.

Top House Judiciary Committee Democrat urges Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from Trump hush money sentencing after a call between Trump and Alito.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday confirmed a call with President-elect Trump, and he said they did not discuss an emergency application from Trump to block his upcoming sentencing in his New York hush money case.

The president-elect called the conservative justice the night before a last-ditch demand to stop his sentencing in New York

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to President-elect Trump Tuesday to recommend a former law clerk for a job in the new administration, ABC News has learned.

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 Trump did not discuss the U.

Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke over the phone on Tuesday, just hours before his lawyers filed an emergency request with the high court to block his criminal sentencing Friday in New York City.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday confirmed a call ... The Hill has reached out to the Trump transition team, Levi, the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the New York ...

Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. And thanks to Jessica Levinson for guest writing last week’s recap on Donald Trump’s New York sentencing. This week was packed with legal news ahead of Trump’s inauguration Monday — so let’s jump right in.