So the big election-rigging case President Trump wants to tee up for the Supreme Court is actually whether his lawyers should have gotten permission to fix a filing they screwed up. https://twitter.com/matthewstiegler/status/1330684916179333123

Best case this strategy means Trump gets to go back to the district court and lose on standing a second time?

President Trump's appeal of a judge's brutal rejection of his efforts to overturn Pennsylvania's election -- the one his lawyers said would get them to the Supreme Court -- is *only* about whether the judge should have given them leave to fix a complaint his lawyers screwed up.

By limiting its appeal only to whether the campaign should have been able to amend its complaint, Trump's team is basically conceding Judge Brann's decision rejecting their Equal Protection case on standing and on the merits.

Trump's lawyers said they want to get this case to the Supreme Court. But what they told the Third Circuit they want is to get this back to in front of Judge Brann as soon as possible in the hopes of blocking Pennsylvania from certifying its results.

They're raising now the prospect that maybe Judge Brann could order the results de-certified, but that's not in the amended complaint they're appealing over.

And they don't seem to have asked the Third Circuit to enjoin Pennsylvania from certifying its results, which is supposed to happen tomorrow.

That's ... the normal thing you'd do if you really wanted to stop the state from certifying its results tomorrow.

Trump's lawyers do say this case "relates to the integrity of election procedures."

But the appeal isn't about that.

It's *only* about whether Trump should've been able to re-file the parts of his lawsuit his lawyers said they dropped by mistake.

Trump's lawyers want the case briefed by Tuesday and argued Wednesday. Defendants, to nobody's great surprise, aren't on board.

None of the surviving elite strike force team signed the motion.

Trump's appeal makes astonishingly little sense.

Trump's lawyers said they want to get to SCOTUS, but this will return them to the district court.

Because they didn't challenge the district court's decision that they lacked standing, if they win here they'll lose on that later.

And even if they come up with a better standing argument for the parts of the amended complaint that would survive, they're still in front of a judge who's already ruled he doesn't have the power to disenfranchise all of Pennsylvania, and they didn't challenge that part.

This whole thing is basically a Motion To Be Beaten A Second Time Because The First Time Was Insufficiently Spectacular.

Perhaps opposing counsel bills by the chortle.