The US Supreme Court on Thursday denied a last-minute bid by President-elect Donald Trump to halt sentencing in his hush money case.The court also noted that Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the hush money case,

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to reject an appeal from President Trump that sought to block his sentencing Friday in the hush-money case.

The former president has separately sued the judge in a state appeals court, claiming that the judge overstepped his jurisdiction when he denied Trump’s presidential “immunity” defense by allowing the sentencing date to move forward without an appeals court decision on “immunity.”

The high court’s action clears the way for the president-elect to be sentenced for his criminal conviction in Manhattan on Friday.

Merchan is the first judge in history to preside over the criminal case and conviction of a then-former U.S. President, and to hold him in criminal contempt of court.

Donald Trump’s request to halt his sentencing in his New York hush money case has been denied by the Supreme Court, meaning that Trump will face sentencing on Friday, and will likely be sworn in as the first president of the United States to be a convicted felon.