There is no longer any question. Donald Trump will reenter the White House as a convicted felon.

The president-elect is due to be sentenced tomorrow morning at 9.30 a.m. Eastern for his 34 felony

convictions in the New York Hush Money case, at which point he will go from being a felon to an

officially convicted felon. In a last ditch attempt to stop that

sentencing, Trump had asked the Supreme Court to intervene, an attempt to effectively run out

the clock until Trump was sworn in as president and could no longer be criminally sentenced.

But just before we came on air tonight, the Supreme Court announced that they had decided

not to intervene

on Trump's behalf. In a 5-4 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney-Barritt

sided with the three liberal justices on the court and denied Trump's request. Justice Thomas,

Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, however, said they would have granted it.

This decision comes just one day after we learned that Justice Alito spent time on the phone

with Donald Trump this week, discussing a former Alito clerk who is now up for a position

in the incoming Trump administration. According to NBC News, Alito and Trump did not discuss

Trump's request, which had not yet been filed.

But the Supreme Court was not the only conservative bench to deny Trump a win tonight.

Just moments after the high court decision came down, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals handed Trump another rebuke, rejecting Trump's efforts to block the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's

report on Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Now, Trump's legal team was attempting to

stop the Justice Department from releasing that report, and it looked initially like they might

succeed after a favorable ruling from Trump's favorite district judge, Aline Cannon.

But tonight, again, the conservative 11th Circuit ruled that that report can be released

and may be released as soon as this Sunday. We now have two significant judicial rebukes of

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