The judges in Mississippi are owned by Haley Barbour.
Haley has told the judges to run out the clock so that McDaniel cannot support any write-in effort.
McDaniel foolishly decided to fight in the State Courts, which is the battlefield of his enemies’ choosing.
Unfortunately, when Doug Forrester tried to contest the dropping out of Robert Torricelli in New Jersey in 2002, SCOTUS refused to hear the case, saying that a Senate race was a state election.
It's true that SCOTUS was gun-shy after being criticized for their involvement in Bush v. Gore in 2000, but at least that case had the cover of national implications even though presidential elections are also essentially state elections for electors.
Therefore, McDaniel may be thinking that SCOTUS won't hear it, just like the refused in New Jersey.
-PJ