The US president-elect was convicted for falsifying business records relating to a payment made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.

Follow live updates and the latest news coverage as Trump attends his sentencing hearing with Judge Juan Merchan following jury conviction in his hush money case.

President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing in New York Friday for his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.

In a singular moment in U.S. history, President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the current American political landscape,

President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced in his hush money criminal case Friday after the Supreme Court refused to pause it, the first-ever sentencing of a former president on criminal charges—though Trump will likely face few, if any, penalties, and is all but certain not to be sentenced to prison.

state judge is to say what consequences, if any, the country’s former and soon-to-be leader will face for felonies that a jury found he committed.

The judge has said he doesn’t intend to order a prison term for the president-elect.

President-elect Donald Trump turned to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to stop the sentencing, citing the conservative majority’s explosive immunity opinion.

The court’s 5-4 order Thursday clears the way for Judge Juan M. Merchan to impose a sentence Friday on Trump, who was convicted in what prosecutors called an attempt to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels.

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.