President-elect Donald Trump's phone call with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at the same time he was filing a motion to the Supreme Court to block his sentencing in his New York criminal case prompted immediate outrage from legal experts,

Hours before the petition was filed, the president-elect spoke on the phone with Samuel Alito, who clarified that the impending appeal was not mentioned during the call.

Some experts and Democratic lawmakers say a phone call between the president-elect and Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was ethically problematic.