In a setback for US President-elect Donald Trump, the US Supreme Court has rejected his plea to delay his sentencing in a New York state court for conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star. The Supreme Court in a 5-4 judgement denied Trump’s last minute attempt to prevent the sentencing in the hush money case, scheduled for Friday at 9:30 am (Eastern Time) in Manhattan’s New York state court. The order by the Supreme Court read, “First, the alleged evidentiary violations at president-elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal. Second, the burden that sentencing will impose on the president-elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of ‘unconditional discharge’ after a brief virtual hearing,” reported Reuters. However, the trial judge Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing Trump’s hush money case said last week that he was not inclined to imprison the president-elect but rather grant him unconditional discharge. Justice Merchan’s judgement could place a …