‘Unprecedented intervention’: Supreme Court responds to Trump sentencing delay bid

The U.S. Supreme Court swiftly responded to President-elect Donald Trump’s formal request early Wednesday morning to delay sentencing in his 34-count felony conviction for business fraud in New York, widely known as the “hush money” case.

Trump is scheduled to be sentenced in New York Supreme Court on Friday, for what District Attorney Alvin Bragg described as "falsifying New York business records in order to conceal his illegal scheme to corrupt the 2016 election." Trump originally was slated to be sentenced on July 11...