By some measures, the controversy surrounding Donald Trump's recent chat with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is intensifying, not dissipating.

On Tuesday, just hours before Donald Trump ’s legal team asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and pause his sentencing today in the New York case involving hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, the president-elect and the conservative justice talked on the phone.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with President-elect Donald Trump about a former law clerk the day before Trump went to the high court in a push to delay the sentencing in his New York hush-money case.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump by phone this week in support of a former law clerk who is seeking a job in the incoming administration – but the justice said he did not discuss Trump’s pending effort to delay his sentencing.

Levi clerked for Alito 13 years ago and currently works as a Big Law partner. He already served in the first Trump administration, as chief of staff to then–Attorney General Bill Barr. He worked for GOP Sen.

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.

The justice said that the call was a job reference for one of his former clerks and that the request to stay the president-elect’s sentencing did not come up.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Wednesday he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump about a former law clerk the day before Trump's high court appearance.

The Supreme Court justice confirmed the call with the president-elect but said they did not discuss the 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.

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