A federal appeals court on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s effort to delay his sentencing in the criminal hush money case because the state judge overseeing the matter already postponed the date.

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to interfere with a lower court decision to keep Donald Trump's already-decided criminal case over hush money paid to a porn star in state court, dealing another blow to the former U.

As a result of the date change, Donald Trump will probably face his New York sentencing either as a just-defeated candidate or as president-elect.

New York's top court on Thursday upheld a judge's gag order on Donald Trump in the case in which the former U.S. president was convicted on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.

After Trump was found guilty of felony charges on May 30 for falsifying New York business records, Merchan, who presided over the trial, pared down the gag order he implemented before it started —

Two separate Donald Trump appeals in his hush money case were rejected on Thursday, as New York's Court of Appeals turned down the former president's requests to lift a gag order and to delay his sentencing.

New York's highest court has declined to hear an appeal on former President Donald Trump's gag order in his hush money case.

Donald Trump on Friday “arguably violated” a gag order in his Manhattan hush money case — just one day after the New York Court of Appeals rejected the former president’s request to lift a limited order placed on him by New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan,