Because there has to be a final determination before the case can be appealed - I.e the whole trial has to play out and conclude before it can be appealed to the next level. SCOTUS would be at the end of a long road.
NY Supreme Court
NY Appellate Divison
NY Court of Appeals
most rulings by a Supreme Court can be the subject of an appeal even though the case in the Supreme Court has not yet been finally resolved and is ongoing.
This is what happened with the summary judgement for fraud. Trump is appealing that and the consequences are on hold until that appeal is resolved. Meanwhile the trial on the other issues is ongoing.
So Trump is in NY Supreme Court now and there's two levels above that.
Normally a civil suit like this wouldn't go to the Supreme Court. The laws involved have been around for a long time so you figured they would have been challenged before.
However, that page does says
The Supreme Court has also been known to hear cases that are highly unusual, such as U.S. v. Nixon concerning the Watergate scandal or Bush v. Gore
Because there has to be a final determination before the case can be appealed - I.e the whole trial has to play out and conclude before it can be appealed to the next level. SCOTUS would be at the end of a long road.
Was just looking at NY Civil Suits.
According to this https://kvnylaw.com/the-appeals-process-new-york-state-courts/
NY has three levels
NY Supreme Court NY Appellate Divison NY Court of Appeals
This is what happened with the summary judgement for fraud. Trump is appealing that and the consequences are on hold until that appeal is resolved. Meanwhile the trial on the other issues is ongoing.
So Trump is in NY Supreme Court now and there's two levels above that.
However, it's not clear to me that this case will go to the US Supreme Court https://kretzerfirm.com/how-do-cases-get-to-supreme-court/#:~:text=The%20Supreme%20Court%20has%20what,itself%20is%20a%20named%20party.
Normally a civil suit like this wouldn't go to the Supreme Court. The laws involved have been around for a long time so you figured they would have been challenged before.
However, that page does says