Two Republican appointees, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett, joined the court’s three liberals in ordering the president-elect to face sentencing on Friday.

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for Donald Trump to be sentenced for the president-elect's conviction on criminal charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, with two conservative justices joining the three liberal members in a 5-4 decision.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Donald Trump's eleventh-hour request to halt Friday's sentencing hearing in the president-elect's criminal hush-money case out of New York. The post Trump-appointed Justice Barrett sides with court’s liberals to allow president-elect’s sentencing in hush-money case first appeared on Law & Crime.