N.Y.'s Top Appeals Court Won't Block Trump Sentencing

New York's highest court declined to block President-elect Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing in his felony case involving falsification of business records Thursday, leaving the U.S. Supreme Court as Trump's likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place Friday.

One judge of the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining to grant a hearing to Trump's legal team.

Trump has asked the Supreme Court to call off Friday's sentencing in the felony case. His lawyers turned to the nation's highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump's trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has denied wrongdoing.