President-elect Donald Trump started his day by joining his own criminal sentencing via videoconference on Friday. While attending virtually from Florida with his attorney, Todd Blanche, both legal parties received Judge Juan Merchan’s probation report to review before sentencing.

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday evening cleared the way for President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing to go forward on Friday morning. In a brief unsigned order issued just after 7 p.m.,

The court turned down Trump's last-minute bid to prevent his sentencing, scheduled for Friday in New York state court in Manhattan 10 days before his inauguration for his second term as president.