The defeat at the Supreme Court was a rare reversal for Trump’s strategy of seeking to delay his criminal cases with multiple appeals – which he used in his federal cases to buy time until he could use his executive authority to thwart them. Of course, for this to work he had to live up to his end of the bargain and win the election.

President-elect Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case, the Supreme Court said in a 5-4 ruling.

The Supreme Court denied President-elect Trump's request to delay his Friday sentencing in his criminal hush money case. Why it matters: Though Trump faces no jail time for his 34 felony convictions,