The ruling means Trump can ask the Supreme Court to block the release of the report written by special counsel Jack Smith. A spokesperson for Trump did not say whether the president-elect would appeal Thursday's ruling but instead attacked Smith in a statement.

The ruling can be appealed. President-elect Donald Trump says releasing the special counsel report would interfere with his White House transition.

A ttorneys for President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday urged an appeals court to block the publication of special counsel Jack Smith’s report explaining why prosecutors decided

The defeat at the Supreme Court was a rare reversal for Trump’s strategy of seeking to delay his criminal cases with multiple appeals – which he used in his federal cases to buy time until he could use his executive authority to thwart them. Of course, for this to work he had to live up to his end of the bargain and win the election.

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

The high court’s action clears the way for the president-elect to be sentenced for his criminal conviction in Manhattan on Friday.