U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has appealed to the Supreme Court to halt sentencing in his hush money case, with less than two weeks before his inauguration. Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records about hush money payments to an adult film star ahead of the 2016 election.
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00:00U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to halt sentencing for his
00:07Mahushmani case.
00:09Sentencing is scheduled for Friday.
00:11His latest request comes after a New York court refused to block the sentencing ahead
00:16of his inauguration on January 20th.
00:19Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying records of payments to adult
00:25film star Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
00:29Trump's lawyers urged the nation's top court to delay sentencing while they investigate
00:33the possibility of presidential immunity for Trump's crimes.