The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal seeking to undo Sheldon Silver’s conviction on public corruption charges Monday, less than one week after the disgraced former speaker of the New York Assembly was passed over for a pardon despite a hard push for one in the waning days of the Trump administration.

Seven justices of the high court voted to deny certiorari in the case, which argued that Silver’s conviction was the result of bad case law governing extortion by “force, violence or fear.”