The initial appeal is expected to take 6 months. Trump’s case wouldn’t reach the Supreme Court until 2028.
That's why Mark Levin was suggesting a fast-track to SCOTUS using Bush v Gore as an example.
I said yesterday that the timeline is different between Florida 2000 and New York 2020. In Florida, Bush was looking at a one week remaining window for certification of the vote when SCOTUS stepped in to stop the Florida Supreme Court from allowing a cherry-picked recount of only the three most heavily Democrat counties in Florida before irreversible damage was done.
In New York, the timing isn't that dire, but it is still accelerated. Republicans are looking at their nominating convention in July and it appears that Merchan set the Trump sentencing hearing purposely to interfere with the Republican nominating process (affecting not just Trump). Merchan could have set the date two weeks later and would still have sentenced Trump without affecting the larger Republican party, but he didn't.
The entire Republican party has a claim to appeal to SCOTUS that the Merchan sentencing date ruling is evidence that the true purpose of the case was to interfere with the Republican Party at-large through Trump and must be set aside if the New York Appeals Court can't address it in a timely manner before irreversible damage is done.
-PJ