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

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the US Supreme Court to pause his sentencing in the hush money case, a highly unusual request that relies in part on the court’s decision last year to grant him broad immunity from criminal prosecution.