President-elect Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records to hide payments to Stormy Daniels made ahead of the 2016 election.

New York’s Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, also refused to stop Trump’s sentencing Thursday morning, as the president-elect went to the court after both Merchan and a New York appeals judge declined to pause it while Trump appeals two orders Merchan issued upholding the guilty verdict.

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, denied Donald Trump’s request to delay sentencing in his New York hush-money case. This clears the way for Judge Juan M. Merchan to sentence Trump, convicted of covering up a $130,