I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder. So I guess SCOTUS may (or may not) take it up after a presumably adverse NY State Supreme Court ruling? Or would the case have to work its way up from the District Court level?
Just to clarify a weird judicial anomaly, the highest level of appellate court in New York is actually called their "Court of Appeals". Their "Supreme Court" (or actually "Courts"), are their highest level of
trial courts. Their first level of appellate courts are technically Appellate Divisions of the Supreme (trial) courts). Confusing when you have to cite to those courts.
So the case will go from the state Supreme Court, to the Appellate Divisions, and then to the New York State Court of Appeals. If Trump loses in all those - which I do not think he will - it could then go to the SCOTUS. However, the SCOTUS appeal is discretionary, and even then can only happen if there is a a federal issue involved. If the case comes down just to an interpretation of New York state law, the U.S. Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction.
One thing of which people should be aware is that an appeal of this kind is not rapid. The first thing that has to happen is that a certified, finalized court transcript and all of the exhibits have to be finalized so that the complete record can then be sent to the appellate division. And before that, all the post-trial motions in front of the judge must be argued.
So there is basically no chance that any level of appeal will be decided in this case prior to the election.
