New York's top court has rejected Donald Trump's request to halt the President-elect's sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to an adult film actress, with a decision on a possible delay now in the hands of the US Supreme Court.

After the court declined in a 5-to-4 decision to block Donald J. Trump’s criminal sentencing, he is scheduled to face a New York judge on Friday morning.

NEW YORK: New York's top court rejected on Thursday (Jan 9) Donald Trump's request to halt the president-elect's sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, with a decision on a possible delay now in the hands of the US Supreme Court. The state court's de

Trump had launched a last-minute appeal at the US Supreme Court ahead of Friday's sentencing hearing.

The clock is running out on Donald Trump’s efforts in the New York judicial system to delay criminal sentencing, as a judge in the state’s highest court rejected his motion Thursday morning. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of business fraud stemming from his “hush money” case. Manhattan Dist...

New York's highest appeals court declines to block Trump's sentencing in his hush money case. Read more.

The decision leaves the US Supreme Court as the president-elect’s likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place tomorrow.

Trump has asked the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in the hush money case. His lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan.

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.

WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court refused to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case, clearing the way for the president-elect to face judgment in a New York courtroom on Friday and to be formally classified as a felon before he returns to the White House. Trump turned to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to stop the hearing, citing the conservative majority’s explosive opinion in July that granted him and other former presidents immunity from criminal prosecution for their official acts. He is set to be sentenced Friday, after a jury convicted him of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made to an adult-film actress during the 2016 election. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial, has said he does not plan to give the incoming president jail time or probation. But the completion of the sentencing hearing would formalize Trump’s status as the first former president or president-elect convicted of criminal wrongdoing…