New York's highest court rejects Trump's attempt to postpone his Friday sentencing in hush money case
From CNN's Nicki Brown and Jeremy Herb
The New York Court of Appeals – New York’s highest court – rejected Donald Trump’s request to stay his sentencing one day before Judge Juan Merchan is set to impose a sentence on the president-elect for the May conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the hush money case.
Trump’s attorneys were notified Thursday morning that Judge Jenny Rivera denied Trump’s request, according to a letter from the Court of Appeals.
Trump has also asked the Supreme Court to block his sentencing.
Merchan signaled in an order earlier this month denying Trump’s bid to toss the conviction that when he sentenced Trump, he will not impose penalties on the president-elect, who is set to retake the White House in less than two weeks.
Trump is expected to appear virtually at Friday’s sentencing if it happens.
State prosecutors overseeing Trump’s hush money case in New York urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow the sentencing of the incoming president to continue as planned.
The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, told the justices that the high court doesn’t have jurisdiction to consider Trump’s emergency request because his appeals have not fully played out in New York courts.
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