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It sounds good but your post is 100% wrong. If Trump files a lawsuit he has no standing to file it in the U.S. Supreme Court. The SC is an appellate court in almost every legal matter — which means he would have to first file his suit in state courts and then exhaust all his appeals in state and Federal courts before appealing to the Supreme Court.

Lawsuits can be filed directly with the Supreme Court in very, very limited circumstances. Lawsuits between states are one of the only types of lawsuits that can be filed directly with the SC.

That’s why this was all done this way.

The first part of what you said that should Trump have filed the suit directly on the federal process he would have to start at the bottom district court level to eventually reach the Court of Appeals and SC is correct
However this is a motion to intervene alleging he has legal standing and albeit this is a dispute between states, there is also a Federal question that directly impacted his reelection and thus he has standing to intervene This is a motion to intervene and if the SC grants the motion, it is confirming his legal standing and cannot later deny it.
Specifically, the brief reads,..”the violations of state election law, which is the “manner” the Legislatures of the States have established for choosing presidential electors, violates the Electors Clause of the U.S. Constitution and thus this matter arises under federal law. See Bush v Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 113 (2000) (“significant departure from the legislative scheme for appointing Presidential electors presents a federal constitutional question”) (Rehnquist, C.J., concurring).
Moreover, as explained more fully in the complaint filed by Texas, the number of ballots affected by illegal conduct of state elections officials greatly exceeds the current margin between Plaintiff in Intervention and his opponent in the election for the Office of President in each of the respective Defendant States, and the four Defendant States collectively have a sufficient number of electoral votes to affect the result of the vote in the Electoral College for the Office of President. Proposed Plaintiff in Intervention therefore clearly has a stake in the outcome of this litigation.”