New York’s highest appeals court declines to block Trump’s hush money sentencing
New York’s highest court has declined to block Donald Trump’s upcoming sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the country’s supreme court as the president-elect’s likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place on Friday.
One judge at the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining to grant a hearing to Mr Trump’s legal team.
Mr 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, who presided over Mr Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Mr Trump has denied wrongdoing.
