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’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,

President-elect Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records to hide payments to Stormy Daniels made ahead of the 2016 election.