He did not rule on the matter before the state court at all. He simply ordered a recount to begin because IF the MI courts allowed the recount to go forward, there might not be enough time to satisfy their order.
The state court has now said the canvassing boards decision is improper, and a recount cannot continue under MI law.
This will go to the MI Supreme Court most likely, and then if the MI Supreme Court upholds the MI appeals court ruling, the MI AG will go back to Goldschmidt (the original Fed judge) and ask him to dissolve his order, in accordance with both his own tentative ruling earlier, and the direction of the US appeals court above him, which said that if the MI courts ruled this wasn't illegal under state law, they expected him to vacate his order.
Does MI AG have to go to Supreme Court? He can’t just go to Goldsmith and say “hey, this recount wasn’t legal under state law and should never have begun?
Jesus... if goldsmith had allowed the two day period, none of this mess would be happening right now.
Again, he said the recount was to continue until his court and only his court said it could stop.