New York’s Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, also refused to stop Trump’s sentencing Thursday morning, as the president-elect went to the court after both Merchan and a New York appeals judge declined to pause it while Trump appeals two orders Merchan issued upholding the guilty verdict.

Trump is now waiting to see if the Supreme Court will intervene at his behest and stop the proceeding from going forward on Friday.

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay his sentencing in his hush money case in New York.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York City hush money case less than 24 hours before it is set to

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision on Thursday refused President-elect Trump’s request to halt his criminal sentencing, now just hours away, closing off Trump’s last remaining pathway to avoid

The Supreme Court rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in New York on Thursday. Judge Juan Merchan previously scheduled the sentencing

The high court’s action clears the way for the president-elect to be sentenced for his criminal conviction in Manhattan on Friday.

President-elect Trump responded to the Supreme Court’s decision allowing his hush money criminal case sentencing to move forward by not criticizing the justices, instead going after his trial judge. The high court in a 5-4 decision refused Trump’s last-ditch emergency request to block Friday’s sentencing in New York as he appeals his immunity claims,

Merchan is the first judge in history to preside over the criminal case and conviction of a then-former U.S. President, and to hold him in criminal contempt of court.