'Utterly without ethics:' Court watchers skewer Justice Alito for taking Trump call

A cascade of shade shrouded the rare phone call between Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and President-elect Donald Trump as legal analysts and political observers took to social media to sound off on the conversation.

Reactions swiftly followed reports that the incoming president and sitting Supreme Court justice spoke by phone just a day before Trump asked the high court to block his criminal sentencing in the New York hush-money case, asserting he is protected by the court’s blockbuster presidential immunity ruling last summer.