Donald Trump is set to be sentenced Friday for covering up hush money paid to a porn star, forcing him to revisit his felony conviction just days before he returns to the White House. The unprecedented court hearing is largely a formality.

President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced in his hush money criminal case Friday after the Supreme Court refused to pause it, the first-ever sentencing of a former president on criminal charges—though Trump will likely face few, if any, penalties, and is all but certain not to be sentenced to prison.

In a singular moment in U.S. history, President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the current American political landscape,