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What's the over/under on SCOTUS ruling in favor of Trump when these are eventually appealed?
The most proper thing for them to do is probably to say "this is a state election issue, not our place to get involved in"
Which is probably fairly likely, I don't think they'll really want to deal with this, it's an easy way for them to wash their hands of it, leaves the door open for red states to try to find an excuse to remove Biden from the ballot, let's them act like they're respecting the intent of the founders, etc.
If they do decide to take it up, who know? The court is definitely packed with conservative assholes, but even among them, I don't think most of them particularly like trump, and they certainly haven't been as "loyal" to him as he would like, some of them would probably love to see him removed from the ballot in hopes that an actually competent Republican asshole might win.
I think it's probably about a 50/50 shot of SCOTUS actually taking it up, and if they do it's probably about 50/50 again for what the outcome would be.
I'm guessing they won't hear the case
Either that or they'll punt it. "We looked at the case and decided that it's up to the states to decide who goes on the ballots and who doesn't."
This would let Colorado and other states kick Trump off the ballot, but it would also open the door to red states kicking Biden off the ballot for "all his crimes which we still have no evidence of."
Then the Supreme Court will eventually need to hear a case on WHAT REASON is good enough to kick someone off the ballot. Is "they fail to meet the requirements" good enough? What about "we don't like this guy and don't want him to win?"
In Trumps case he was deemed to have incited insurrection and the constitution tells them he can't hold office.
It's going to be a lot harder for anyone to remove Biden and survive a court challenge unless they also find him guilty of insurrection somehow.