Manhattan prosecutors have urged New York's top court to reject U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's request to halt his sentencing set for Friday for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.

The justice spoke to President-elect Donald Trump on the phone hours before Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop his sentencing.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump by phone this week in support of a former law clerk who is seeking a job in the incoming administration – but the justice said he did not discuss Trump’s pending effort to delay his sentencing.

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to delay his planned sentencing Friday in his criminal hush money case, setting up a potential test of the high court's ruling to extend broad immunity from prosecution to former presidents.

Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay sentencing in the hush money case, citing harm to the presidential transition. Sentencing is set for Jan. 10.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with President-elect Donald Trump about a former law clerk the day before Trump went to the high court in a push to delay the sentencing in his New York hush-m

New York's highest court declined to block Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing in his hush money case Thursday, leaving the U.S. Supreme Court as the president-elect's likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place Friday.