President-elect Trump’s emergency appeal to the United States Supreme Court to stop his hush money sentencing is an eleventh hour effort to stave off beginning his term as a convicted felon. 

The emergency petition asks America’s highest court to step in and stop Trump’s sentencing, which is scheduled for Friday. A New York appeals court rejected that same request on Tuesday, declining to overrule Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling that Trump can be sentenced notwithstanding his imminent inauguration.