New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has spent decades writing about Donald Trump, and if there’s anyone who knows what’s going on in that head of his, it’s Maggie. Talking to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Friday, she said he’s secretly fearful that the U.S. Supreme Court will back Colorado’s decision to knock him off the state’s presidential ballot, Raw Story reports. He has reason for concern — while Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett usually tend to favor him, they haven’t always done his bidding.

The former president has “voiced some concern,” Haberman told Collins.

Apparently one of Trump’s biggest worries is that his “supermajority” — created by the appointments of Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch — may render verdicts against him as a way to prove they aren’t influenced by him, she added.

“He appointed three of the justices and gave the conservatives a super majority,” Haberman said. “He is concerned they will look as if they are trying not to rule in his favor,” Haberman said. “He is concerned they will look as if they are trying not to rule in his favor and might rule against him.”

This case pertains to a political watchdog group’s 14th Amendment challenge to Trump’s eligibility under the insurrectionist ban (Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prohibits officials who have taken an oath to support the Constitution from serving in the office if they have previously engaged in an insurrection). Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled Trump violated this ban because of his actions before, and during the January 6 Capitol attack. But now, the state court’s decision is now facing appeal.

So while Trump displays more than his share of bombastic boasting, as he hopes to distract from his conservative competitors while the election year looms, in private, Haberman tells us these private concerns mean he is feeling vulnerable.

“This is crowding out final days of the primaries,” Haberman said. “His rivals, who are trailing him, need to get attention.”

And former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley certainly did get her share of attention this week, but this is largely because she seriously tripped over a question about the cause of the Civil War — stupidly citing state rights and neglecting to mention slavery, meaning her campaign may now be D.O.A. Who knows?

But everyone is focusing on Trump’s mountain of court “issues” — 91 criminal charges and a presidential immunity defense that’s wending its way through the court of appeals.

Haberman did note that Trump’s political team seems to believe there’s a silver lining to the Colorado case’s journey to the Supreme Court, possibly benefitting their candidate in two different ways, by providing him with additional publicity and helping him to play underdog to his base, she said.

“His political advisers do think there is political advantage,” Haberman said. “His team is collapsing all of his under the rubric of witch hunt.”

As for the second part, his team hopes the justices will come through for him, she said.

“They believe,” she added, “that they will have success at the Supreme Court.”

I’m hoping the justices remember they serve the people and don’t bow to Trump’s whims, but since six of the Court’s nine justices have conservative leanings I’m not holding my breath.