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Political observers wasted no time taking to social media Thursday evening after news hit that the Supreme Court would not rescue President-elect Donald Trump on the eve of his sentencing hearing.

Despite the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority – cemented during Trump’s first term with his appointment of three justices – the high court in a divided ruling denied the incoming president’s emergency request to block his Friday sentencing in his New York hush-money case.

The US Supreme Court is to hear TikTok's appeal on Friday of a law that would force its Chinese owner to sell the wildly popular online video-sharing platform or shut it down.

The top court is holding oral arguments in the case nine days before TikTok faces a ban unless ByteDance divests from the popular app.

President-elect Donald Trump once again lashed out at the judge overseeing his New York hush-money case even as he thanked the Supreme Court — which on Thursday evening declined to delay his sentencing — for their "time and effort" in trying to "remedy the great injustice" he said was done to him.

Trump was dealt a pair of legal blows on Thursday evening, with the Supreme Court declining to delay his sentencing in Manhattan — meaning he'll return to the Oval Office as a convicted felon — and an appeals court rejecting an emergency request to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith's much-anticipated reported.

As the Supreme Court blocked President-elect Donald Trump's effort to delay his sentencing in his New York hush-money case, he and two MAGA allies were dealt another blow, as an appeals court rejected their request to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report.

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied an emergency motion from Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira to block Smith's report.

The mother of slain Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt says President-elect Donald Trump called her to offer his support to her family, and to the defendants in general, reported NBC News on Thursday.

Per the report, Micki Witthoeft "said at a nightly vigil outside of the D.C. jail in support of Jan. 6 defendants on Wednesday that Trump had called her when she was in the back of an Uber with two other supporters of Jan. 6 defendants, coming back from laying down flowers in honor of her daughter," and that he told her to “Tell them I love them, to keep their chins up.”

A mix of good-natured humor and horror took over social media Thursday after reports emerged that President-elect Donald Trump’s team has been on the hunt for a disease they can use as a springboard to seal the border.

The plan – revealed by The New York Times less than two weeks before Trump is inaugurated as the 47th president – involves the incoming president invoking Section 265 of Title 42 to declare a public health emergency and summarily expel migrants.

A divided Supreme Court has denied President-elect Donald Trump's request to block his looming sentencing hearing, scheduled for Friday in his New York hush-money case.

Four conservative justices on the court said they would have granted Trump's emergency request to block his sentencing, USA Today reported: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh.

Florida's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for failing to call special elections for two empty state legislature seats.

The ACLU filed its lawsuit Thursday on behalf of voters in Brevard and Santa Rosa counties, according to the organization. The vacancies arose when state Rep. Joel Rudman and state Sen. Randy Fine announced their upcoming resignations on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26, respectively, to run in special congressional elections after Republicans Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz were tapped for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet.

The man who became infamous for the armed storming of a pizzeria in Washington, D.C. over a conspiracy theory was killed by North Carolina police in a traffic stop, reported the Charlotte Observer on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Saturday as Edgar Maddison Welch sat in the passenger seat of a GMC SUV when an officer pulled it over, Kannapolis police said in a news release Thursday.

Maria Corina Machado, a 57-year-old engineer with rock-star appeal, became the fearless figurehead of Venezuela's opposition after being barred from challenging strongman Nicolas Maduro in elections last July.

On Thursday, she was "forcibly detained," then released, her team said, after emerging from months in hiding to lead a protest seeking to fire up resistance to Maduro's alleged power grab.

US tech billionaire Elon Musk doubled down Thursday on his full-throated support for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), promoting its leader Alice Weidel during a livestream on X in his latest intervention in European politics.

"Only AfD can save Germany, end of story," the Tesla and SpaceX boss and ally of US President-elect Donald Trump said during the discussion with Weidel.

Reports that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) will be the first Democratic lawmaker to visit the incoming president at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort — coupled with his comparison of MAGA flirtations of taking Greenland to the famed Louisiana Purchase — provoked an immediate stream of reaction Thursday from political observers across social media.

The internet began to speculate immediately after the Pennsylvania senator confirmed in his own social media post that he would head to Florida to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump's team is searching for a disease that they can use to declare a public health emergency to seal the border, reported The New York Times on Thursday.

Specifically, Trump wants an excuse to invoke Section 265 of Title 42, the provision that suspends entries through the border and summarily expels migrants during a period when the surgeon general has declared a communicable disease emergency. This power, which became a big part of Trump's border control strategy in his first term, was invoked at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and remained in place for several years until the Biden administration lifted it.