Stupid phone auto spell.
The likelihood of the USSC ruling that the big O was retrospectively ineligible is like lottery odds as in virtually zero. So the amendment route is the only way...
There was absolutely no way any court was going to rule the first "black" presidential candidate was disqualified because he wasn't a "natural born citizen."
Wasn't going to happen and it didn't matter what the law said about it.
They weren't going to allow themselves to be castigated as the bad guys for just doing their job.