NEW YORK — New York’s highest court on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s effort to stop his sentencing from going ahead Friday, leaving the matter in the hands of the Supreme Court. In a letter to Trump’s attorney,

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.

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche argued that his client is already protected by presidential immunity and that the judge should block his sentencing on state felony charges.

Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in his criminal hush money case and stop his sentencing from going ahead on Friday. The eleventh-hour request to the nation’s high court came a day after Trump’s attorney,

Forcing President Trump to prepare for a criminal sentencing in a felony case while he is preparing to lead the free world imposes an intolerable, unconstitutional burden,' his defense team argued.

A New York appeals court judge on Tuesday rejected President-elect Donald Trump's emergency motion, to delay this week's sentencing in his hush money case, one day after Judge Juan Merchan denied the same request.