In their appeal to the Supreme Court, Trump's lawyers argued that Trump is shielded from prosecution, citing the court's own July 1, 2024, ruling on presidential immunity. The court rejected this claim, emphasizing that immunity does not extend to presidents-elect.

US President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a case that for a time overshadowed his bid to retake the White House.

Trump, who will be sworn into office in 10 days, lost several last-minute bids to put off the punishment phase of his trial, petitioning the state appellate court, the New York Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that as an incoming president, he should be immune from prosecution. He was denied in each venue.

On Tuesday, just hours before Donald Trump ’s legal team asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and pause his sentencing today in the New York case involving hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, the president-elect and the conservative justice talked on the phone.

A New York appeals court rejected Donald Trump ‘s effort to at least postpone his sentencing on Friday for his criminal conviction related to hush money payments to former porn star Stormy Daniels.

Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday for covering up hush money payments to a porn star despite the US President-elect's last-ditch efforts to frustrate a process that would make him the first felon in the White House.

The Supreme Court rejected President-elect Donald Trump's request to delay sentencing in his hush money case. Trump was convicted of covering up a payment to Stormy Daniels. Trump's lawyers argued the prosecution violated his presidential immunity,

Donald Trump will now be sentenced on Friday for counts around the New York hush money case - days before the 78-year-old politician is due to return to the US presidency

New York’s Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, also refused to stop Trump’s sentencing Thursday morning, as the president-elect went to the court after both Merchan and a New York appeals judge declined to pause it while Trump appeals two orders Merchan issued upholding the guilty verdict.

Trump’s convictions arose from what prosecutors said was an attempt to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels just before

Donald Trump’s long criminal saga over paying to cover up his alleged sex with Stormy Daniels will end next week with a whimper, the judge in his case said Friday. Judge Juan Merchan announced that he would formally sentence Trump on Friday,