Donald Trump hasn’t even taken office, and he is already testing how far the US Supreme Court will yield to his demands as he starts his second term as president.

Trump's lawyers argued that the justices should step in and pause his sentencing "to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the presidency."

Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in his criminal hush money case and stop his sentencing from going ahead on Friday. The eleventh-hour request to the nation’s high court came a day after Trump’s attorney,