ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s highest court has 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. A judge of the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order Thursday declining to grant a hearing to Trump’s legal team. Trump has asked the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing. New York courts have refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump denies wrongdoing. Prosecutors say there’s no reason to halt the case.
