A New York top court denied Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in hush money case, while his appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court remains pending.

New York's highest court on Thursday declined to block Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the U.S. Supreme Court as the president-elect's likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York

A Manhattan judge has already indicated that he will spare Donald J. Trump from jail time, but the president-elect is seeking to avoid the symbolic blow of the criminal proceeding.

What To Watch For. It’s unclear when the Supreme Court will rule on Trump’s request to pause his sentencing, though a ruling is likely to come on Thursday after prosecutors fi

New York’s high court on Thursday declined to halt President-elect Trump’s sentencing on his hush money criminal conviction, which is scheduled for Friday morning. In a terse note, the New York Court of Appeals’s chief clerk notified Trump’s attorneys that Judge Jenny Rivera declined to sign an order stopping the sentencing from moving forward,