Trump lawyer Todd Blanche argued that his client is already protected by presidential immunity and that the judge should block his sentencing on state felony charges.

New York's highest court has rejected Donald Trump's latest bid to halt this Friday's sentencing hearing in his criminal hush-money case. The post Trump claims hush-money sentencing ‘mere days’ before inauguration is ‘unconstitutional’ in failed application to state’s highest court first appeared on Law & Crime.

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 lawyer Todd Blanche argued that his client is already protected by presidential immunity and that the judge should block his sentencing on state felony charges.

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision on Thursday refused President-elect Trump’s request to halt his criminal sentencing, now just hours away, closing off Trump’s last remaining pathway to avoid receiving his punishment for his 34-count felony conviction in New York.

Trump asked a New York appeals court to dismiss his hush money conviction, citing immunity and arguing sentencing before his inauguration violates the law.

New York's highest court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to halt his Friday sentencing, and prosecutors are urging the U.S.

In the first test of how receptive the court may be to Trump, 4 of the court's 6 conservative members said they would have granted his emergency request.