Of these, I definitely can't muster much hope that option #1 would occur. If option #3 occurs, as I think you're expecting (but not wanting), that would at least give me some hope that there's a good chance that 3 justices really would be willing to take up the case if given the chance.
I'm dreading, but honestly somewhat expecting option #2 in which the two BHO appointees will go ahead and recuse themselves and yet the case will still be denied. That would ever so disheartening.
Nevertheless, given the way everything else has gone, I fear that the only reason this case is scheduled for conference again is just so they can 'cross Ts and dot Is' to keep us nuts on the fringe from finding yet another technicality that would allow us to send it back through the system again.
Like you, I desperately hope I'm wrong about that, but I hate it when people get in frenzy and say thing like "In a stunning development, the Supreme Court has reversed its earlier decision and now wants to look at the Hemmenway case again. They've but it back on the conference schedule! That must mean they're going to give the case a hearing for sure this time!!"
Not quite so likely, I'm afraid, folks.
That means we no longer have to listen to a damn thing the Fed government says, because it is invalid in all three branches.
Seriously, the Fed does not seem to want to get that we KNOW what this means.
Its insanity.
But there it is. If SCOTUS refuses to pursue this legit case, then the Natural Born Clause means nothing, and we have an usurper who doesn’t even have to face reelection to stay in power. He can just stay there.
Its the end of the United States, and hardly anyone but we constitutionalists know it. That's the only thing keeping this nation from exploding in total chaos. Ignorance. It's just unbelievable.