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.”

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 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.

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