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.

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