New York’s Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, 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.

New York’s highest appeals court declined to block Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the U.S. Supreme Court as Trump's likely last option.

New York's highest court ruled on whether President-elect Donald Trump's criminal sentencing in his New York hush money case will go forward Friday.