New York’s highest appeals court declines to block Trump’s hush money sentencing

The US president-elect has denied wrongdoing (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

New York’s highest court has declined to block Donald Trump’s upcoming sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the country’s supreme court as the president-elect’s likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place on Friday.

One judge at the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining to grant a hearing to Mr Trump’s legal team.