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***Phil Holloway went deep on the SCOTUS Emergency Docket***

Yes, a thorough explanation of what I suggested the other day: for SCOTUS to take an expedited appeal for a 'Stay'. Obviously no federal court at any level is going to look at a local court case without a rigorous appeal process first. Note: a death sentence can bypass this lengthy appeal process due to immediate consequences; almost no such expedited appeals result in the local jurisprudence being overturned.

Similarly the federal appeals court is not going to analyze legal ethical misconduct of a local trial until the local and state appeal process may result in a legally questionable outcome.

So we can't expect SCOTUS to review the transcript of the local court case or possible appeal courts when the time is short and a decision is critically pressing; and they are almost certainly not going to overrule the conviction without going thorough the complete appeal process.

Of course what is as pressing here as a death sentence is the fact that a soon upcoming major presidential election candidate is facing a sentence that might allow the legal system to arbitrarily interfere in the electoral process of letting the voters make the choice that each one wants.

The most logical SCOTUS intervention in this case is a 'stay' on the sentencing by the local court for a predetermined amount of time. That would seem to constitute the least amount of interference in a local legal matter.

Naturally the Trump defense team must initiate the expedited appeal process. As I suggested, the RNC or the Republican Congressional Committee could join the Trump team or file an amicus brief for SCOTUS consideration to add weight (incentive) to the urgency of the appeal. Likewise a group of state (Republican) attorney generals could assume standing and file in support.

As I stated, failure of SCOTUS intervention would likely severely wound the normal Constitutional electoral process for all time (precedent); thus this expedited process must be enjoined to save our regular Constitutional order. Otherwise, the Dem Party will use lawfare to win every election important to them (➡Mark Elias!) ad nauseum!

Just to summarize, such SCOTUS intervention would not interfere with local Constitutional legal options; it would only serve to delay them in the critical national interest.