The defeat at the Supreme Court was a rare reversal for Trump’s strategy of seeking to delay his criminal cases with multiple appeals – which he used in his federal cases to buy time until he could use his executive authority to thwart them. Of course, for this to work he had to live up to his end of the bargain and win the election.

Trump's lawyers argued that the justices should step in and pause his sentencing "to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the presidency."

President-elect Trump responded to the Supreme Court’s decision allowing his hush money criminal case sentencing to move forward by not criticizing the justices, instead going after his trial judge. The high court in a 5-4 decision refused Trump’s last-ditch emergency request to block Friday’s sentencing in New York as he appeals his immunity claims,

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied President-elect Donald Trump’s emergency petition to block his upcoming sentencing in the hush money case.

Donald Trump’s attempt to avoid sentencing in his Manhattan criminal case has been rejected by the Supreme Court.