Click here for an article at Business Insider, by Sonam Sheth, entitled "Trump's lawyers had a 'law school 101 discussion' about explaining to him how the Supreme Court works, book says."
Trump, angered by his loss to Biden, screamed at his advisors, "Why can't we go directly to the Supreme Court?" They had to explain to him that first a case must be filed in a district court, then get a federal appeals court to hear the case, and appeal that case to SCOTUS -- and even then, the Court might decline to take it up.
Trump said frequently and publicly on the campaign trail that he was banking on the Supreme Court to hand him the election if he lost the Electoral College to Biden.
After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September last year, leaving a vacancy on the high court, Time reported that Trump allies were weighing which prospective Supreme Court picks would help him win the election.
On September 23, Trump made the groundless claim that Democrats were trying to rig the election against him and said he wanted a conservative majority on the Supreme Court that would agree with him.
"I think this will end up in the Supreme Court," he said. "And I think it's very important that we have nine justices."
He seemed to believe that because he had appointed Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Comey-Barrett, they were in his pocket and would vote to support him. That's not the way it works -- at least, not yet.
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