My question is, why did the Trump lawyers not present the case in a court presided by one of the new Trump appointed judges?
He tried. Even his SCOTUS judges kicked him to the curb.
My corollary question to yours is, given that some went to Trump-appointed-judges, why did they also not hear the evidence, and dismiss the cases on technicalities.
I’ve pondered that a bit, and the best I can come up with so far is the judges, or perhaps the senior judge in each court was talked to, perhaps by SCOTUS/Roberts, to the effect of: “We at SCOTUS will not hear the case; we at SCOTUS strongly suggest you do the same”.
Or some other rationale... of the 60-65 courts, only one heard evidence.