In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court has rejected Donald Trump’s request to delay his sentence.
Trump, US President-elect due to be sworn in on January 20.
Trump who is returning as president after Joe Biden ousted him in his second term bid is seeking the apex Court ’s bid to block his sentencing on his criminal conviction in the Manhattan hush money case.
The Supreme Court is snubbing the president-elect by refusing to spare him from an embarrassing distraction just days before he’s scheduled to be inaugurated for his second term.
The high court’s action clears the way for a hearing in Manhattan on Friday, where Trump’s conviction on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records is set to be finalized.
Two of the court’s Republican appointees — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett — joined the court’s three Democratic appointees to turn down Trump’s last-ditch attempt to avert the sentencing.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, the court’s remaining Republican appointees, dissented from the ruling.
