The emergency petition asks America’s highest court to step in and stop Trump’s sentencing, which is scheduled for Friday. A New York appeals court rejected that same request on Tuesday, declining to overrule Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling that Trump can be sentenced notwithstanding his imminent inauguration.

The president-elect is asking the Supreme Court to halt the sentencing after both Judge Juan Merchan and an appeals court refused.

Donald Trump is appealing to the Supreme Court to halt the sentencing in his New York hush money case, citing presidential immunity. Trump's legal team argues that the evidence used in his trial should be protected.

The former president has separately sued the judge in a state appeals court, claiming that the judge overstepped his jurisdiction when he denied Trump’s presidential “immunity” defense by allowing the sentencing date to move forward without an appeals court decision on “immunity.”

Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court after New York courts refused to do postpone the sentencing.

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

Judge Juan Merchan on Monday denied President-elect Donald Trump’s request to postpone his sentencing, scheduled for Friday, as stated in

Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a New York judge to stop Trump’s sentencing scheduled for Friday on his convictions for falsifying business documents.