Democratic senator: Alito has made impropriety the norm

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Thursday blasted conservative Justice Samuel Alito for having a conversation with President-elect Trump amidst Trump’s effort to have courts halt his criminal sentencing in New York. “Brazenly unapologetic, Justice Alito has made impropriety the norm,” Blumenthal wrote on social media. The Connecticut senator…