The Supreme Court refused to block President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing for covering up hush money paid to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, clearing the way for an unprecedented court proceeding in New York.

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.

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’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,

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.

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.

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

New York Judge Juan Merchan is expected to give Trump a sentence that would uphold his conviction while sparing him any other punishment.

Donald Trump’s attempt to avoid sentencing for his criminal hush-money case has been rejected by the Supreme Court.

The US Supreme Court cleared the way for sentencing in a Manhattan state court, rejecting a last-minute request by Donald Trump to delay the proceedings just 10 days before his January 20 inauguration