President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case is slated to take place Friday in New York after Judge Juan Merchan rejected the president-elect’s effort to pause it Monday, coming less than two weeks before Trump’s inauguration—though he will likely face few,

President-elect Donald Trump is trying again to delay this week's sentencing in his hush money case, asking a New York appeals court to intervene as he fights to avoid the finality of his conviction before he returns to the White House.