New York’s highest court has declined to block Donald Trump’s upcoming sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the U.S.

Follow live updates and the latest news coverage as Trump attends his sentencing hearing with Judge Juan Merchan following jury conviction in his hush money case.

The New York Court of Appeals has denied a motion filed by President-elect Trump to stay the Jan. 10 sentencing in the New York v. Trump case.

A New York top court denied Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in hush money case, while his appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court remains pending.

The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Friday sentenced the president-elect to an “unconditional discharge,” meaning he is now a convicted felon in the eyes of New York state law but will face no further penalties.

In their Thursday response to the defense’s Court of Appeals filing, Manhattan prosecutors claim Trump counsel is relying on federal procedure and federal cases that do not apply in a New York state criminal proceeding in their attempts to assert sentencing is precluded by presidential immunity.

President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House this month as a felon, but will serve no jail time under a sentence handed down this morning in New York for his criminal conviction in a hush-money trial that angered him and his supporters but didn’t prevent him from reclaiming the presidency.

Donald Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records. He was sentenced Friday in a New York court.

Donald Trump was not punished for his criminal conviction in the Manhattan hush money case, bringing a lackluster end to the legal saga that will make him the country’s first felon-turned-president. At a sentencing hearing on Friday,