I have been trying to sort out for myself why SCOTUS wouldn't at least hear the case even if they ultimately intended in ruling against Texas and a thought occurred to me. It is entirely possible they know the electoral count will get rejected by congress on the 6th anyway and decided not to dirty their hands with a ruling either way. If they hypothetically knew this was the case it would make sense they would refuse to hear the trial, then clear up the ballot situation at a later date after the presidency is settled.

This is the only plausible explanation I can think of that isn't "SCOTUS is compromised." Because all other plausible explanations seem dangerous, aka they are afraid of court-packing and appeasing the Dems, or they literally don't care about the constitution enough to hear arguments, or they are too afraid of the political fallout for taking the case. etc. Those are far worse.

Hopefully, I'm right, anyway I just wanted to share this somewhat of a shower thought with you guys.