Large blow to Trump earlier than January 20 inauguration: Court docket declines to dam his sentencing in hush cash case

New York’s highest court docket declined to dam Donald Trump’s upcoming sentencing in his hush-money case on Thursday, leaving the US Supreme Court docket because the president-elect’s seemingly final choice to forestall the listening to from going down on Friday. One decide of the New York Court docket of Appeals issued a short order declining to grant a listening to to Trump’s authorized group.

Trump has requested the Supreme Court docket to name off Friday’s sentencing within the hush cash case. His legal professionals turned to the nation’s highest court docket on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Decide Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction final Could on 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information. Trump has denied wrongdoing.