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.

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.

After the court declined in a 5-to-4 decision to block Donald J. Trump’s criminal sentencing, he is scheduled to face a New York judge on Friday morning.

The Supreme Court’s ruling comes after Judge Juan Merchan and two New York appeals courts ordered the sentencing to take place Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent the Jan. 10 sentencing in his New York criminal hush money case.

Donald Trump‘s sentencing in his New York hush-money trial will proceed on Friday, after the Supreme Court declined the president-elect’s emergency appeal to halt the proceedings. In an order posted this evening,

The high court’s action clears the way for the president-elect to be sentenced for his criminal conviction in Manhattan on Friday.

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.

A coalition of women's advocacy organizations has sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump to demand the NCAA change its transgender athlete policies.

Donald Trump is set to be sentenced by Judge Juan Merchan in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday morning after he was found guilty on all counts at his hush money trial last year – just 10 days before his second inauguration to the presidency.

Politico's Kyle Cheney discusses Representative Raskin's sharp criticism of Trump's private phone call with Justice Alito, when we'll see the Jack Smith reports, and the Supreme Court's legitimacy issues.