I suspect the reason it looked like the SCOTUS punted on the election is that it didn't need to be decided and have case law established, because it already was decided under military overwatch in the ongoing covert interdiction of a foreign/domestic attempted overthrow of the US government.
What we're seeing now is quite possibly a God-tier version of the Road to Basra trap baiting ALL the traitors and haters into the killbox.
There is no pretty end to ugly business, so you plan and act for the least casualties of good people. The least may still be enormous.
It very well may be that civil war produces less good losses than capitulation, which China and Russia have shown result in unfathomable systematic murder of decent people.
Pray for peace, but prepare for war. At least the enemies are wearing brightly colored targets now.