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

Donald Trump requests the Supreme Court to halt his sentencing on New York's hush money case, arguing the felony conviction would harm presidential operations. His legal team cites presidential immunity,

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 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.”

Manhattan Acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan denied a defense request to stay sentencing pending appeal. The defense team is now asking a mid-level appeals court to find the judge does not have the jurisdiction to issue rulings on presidential immunity matters.

Trump's lawyers turned to the nation's highest court Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by the judge who presided over Trump's trial and conviction in May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

Joyce Vance discusses Merchan citing a recent report from Chief Justice John Roberts while announcing Trump's sentencing date.