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.

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

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.The conservative justice told ABC News he agreed to take a call from the incoming president to recommend a law clerk for a position in his administration.

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.

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.

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

Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke with Donald Trump a day before Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay sentencing in his hush money case.

Prior to joining the Manhattan Institute, Hessler served as a constitutional ... She also served on the legal team that counseled on the nomination of Justice Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. Before joining the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

When the Supreme Court justices first shared an inaugural stage with Donald Trump, they heard the new president deliver a 16-minute declaration against the country and vow, “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

Totally unbelievable! Felonious Donald Trump whines like bratty little Rhoda Penmark, filmdom’s “Bad Seed,” and twistedly tries to Kool-Aid us into abetting his bald-faced lie that the members of the congressional Jan.