In their Thursday response to the defense’s Court of Appeals filing, Manhattan prosecutors claim Trump counsel is relying on federal procedure and federal cases that do not apply in a New York state criminal proceeding in their attempts to assert sentencing is precluded by presidential immunity.

New York’s highest court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to postpone his sentencing in the hush money case, leaving the Supreme Court as Trump’s last chance to stop his Friday sentencing.

Prosecutors on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to allow Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush money case to go ahead as scheduled on Friday morning. Emphasizing that Trump’s conviction rests on conduct for which he is not entitled to immunity,

Prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office urged the Supreme Court not to "take the extraordinary step" of preventing the sentencing.

Trump is now waiting to see if the Supreme Court will intervene at his behest and stop the proceeding from going forward on Friday.

Trump asked a New York appeals court to dismiss his hush money conviction, citing immunity and arguing sentencing before his inauguration violates the law.

President-elect Donald J. Trump is trying to expunge his conviction before he is inaugurated. He would be the first felon elected to the Oval Office.

New York's highest court declined to block Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing in his hush money case Thursday, leaving the U.S. Supreme Court as the president-elect's likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place Friday.

New York state's highest court declined to intervene in the sentencing in Trump's "hush money" case, which is set for Friday.

Trump appealed a New York judge's plan to sentence him Friday by arguing his conviction should be overturned due to presidential immunity.

Donald Trump's bid to delay his sentencing Friday in his hush money case rests on an "utterly baseless" concept of president-elect immunity, prosecutors argued Thursday.