President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his New York criminal hush money case. But he has already pledged to appeal.

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to pause his upcoming criminal sentencing and consider whether his guilty verdict in Manhattan should be thrown out, as the sentencing is now scheduled to take place Friday after a New York appeals court Tuesday shot down Trump’s request to pause it.

Justice Juan M. Merchan, an even-keeled jurist, has been in the president-elect’s cross-hairs for nearly two years.

The charges related to payments Trump’s company made to a lawyer, Michael Cohen, to reimburse him for paying off porn actor Stormy Daniels during Trump’s 2016 Republican presidential campaign.

On Friday, a New York judge imposed a sentence that ensures Donald Trump will be the first convicted felon to enter the White House when he is sworn in as president on Jan. 20. It was a brief and relatively calm final encounter of Trump's relationship with Justice Juan Merchan over 21 months and featured accusations of political bias from the former and stern dressings-down from the latter.

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his historic hush money case to an unconditional discharge -- allowing Trump to avoid prison, fines or probation, but cementing his status as a convicted felon just 10 days before he takes the oath of office for his second term.

President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced in his New York hush money case, but Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan declined to impose any punishment.