President-elect Donald Trump is trying again to delay this week's sentencing in his hush money case, asking a New York appeals court to intervene as he fights to avoid the finality of his conviction before he returns to the White House.

President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case is slated to take place Friday in New York after Judge Juan Merchan rejected the president-elect’s effort to pause it Monday, coming less than two weeks before Trump’s inauguration—though he will likely face few, if any, penalties, and is all but certain not to be sentenced to prison.