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I don't think it's even within SCOTUS' ability to do anything about this state-level ruling.
Not that "you can't legally do that" has ever been a barrier to Republicans before.
Sadly I think original jurisdiction of SCOTUS means they could choose to jump the line and hear the case. However it would be unprecedented to do so as a) they don't have time to review every state felony case and b) his lawyers have yet to actually make a case that the trial was performed wrongly.
But in this case, Trump does want an appeal, but probably can't wait til June '25 to have it
I don't know enough about this subject clearly, but has there ever been a similar situation where SCOTUS overturned a case like this? Not against a former president, obviously, but that shouldn't be relevant. There have been other cases where political candidates have been convicted of violating state campaign finance laws. Has SCOTUS ever intervened?
I don't think so, but they have also used their shadow docket more and more to do things that are unprecedented. It's not 100% unbelievable.
Steve Vladeck wrote a book about that ... The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.
In a CNN interview he also said that "for the first 200 years of the Supreme Court’s existence, Congress was regularly involved in conversations about the shape and size of the court’s docket, which kinds of cases the court was hearing, how much business it was conducting". One wonders why that oversight stopped.