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

New York's highest court has rejected Donald Trump's latest bid to halt this Friday's sentencing hearing in his criminal hush-money case.

The former president has separately sued the judge in a state appeals court, claiming that the judge overstepped his jurisdiction when he denied Trump’s presidential “immunity” defense by allowing the sentencing date to move forward without an appeals court decision on “immunity.”

Trump hoped that an appellate judge would ice the proceedings in his Manhattan hush money case. He’s due to be sentenced on Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent a New York state court from sentencing him for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.

President-elect Trump is asking the Supreme Court to halt his sentencing in the New York hush money case. Meanwhile, Attorney General Garland has decided to release Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s 2020 election interference.

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to block a New York judge from sentencing him Friday over his felony conviction in a hush money case. The justices "should order an immediate stay of criminal proceedings against President Trump in the New York trial court,