President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case is slated to take place Friday in New York after Judge Juan Merchan rejected the president-elect’s effort to pause it Monday, coming less than two weeks before Trump’s inauguration—though he will likely face few,

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.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg urged the US Supreme Court on Thursday to reject President-elect Donald Trump's request to block sentencing in his hush money case.In their filing to the New York appeals court,