There were quite a few court filings appealing for Certiorari with SCOTUS but the Roberts court “evaded” them all per Justice Thomas’s testimony before a sub-committee in Congress. The federal courts used every legal technicality in their tool bag to not take and try a case on the merits. And SCOTUS treated all the appeals to it for Certiorari with stone silence and just not taking any of them. They totally evaded their oaths to support and defend the Constitution and ignored the words of Chief Justice John Marshall it not taking a first impressions case on the constitutional term “natural born Citizen” as directly applied to presidential eligibility. As I said, why? Because they knew the answer. Obama was not a “natural born Citizen” of the United States and they knew it and feared the charge of racism, or told by the three letter agencies that 100s of cities would burn if Obama was ruled ineligible, or Roberts and maybe one or two more were threatened in one way or another to keep them from doing their constitutional duty. And once Obama got away with it, along comes Harris and Haley and of course Cruz who want to do or did in the case of Harris, the same unconstitutional tactic and language manipulation with the help of both major political parties and their enabling media and silent courts to ignore the true original intent, meaning, and purpose of the nbC term. Do a search for presidential eligibility lawsuits. Cases were brought against McCain and Obama in 2008 and some of them were taken all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court only to be turned away. And many others since. Just do some research yourself and you will find the answers you seek.
When was this?
They totally evaded their oaths to support and defend the Constitution and ignored the words of Chief Justice John Marshall it not taking a first impressions case on the constitutional term “natural born Citizen” as directly applied to presidential eligibility.
Alternatively: if a case is deemed frivolous without merit on the outset, why waste time taking it? (Notwithstanding that the Supreme Court is not obligated to take on every appeal which is made to them.)
Do a search for presidential eligibility lawsuits. Cases were brought against McCain and Obama in 2008 and some of them were taken all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court only to be turned away. And many others since. Just do some research yourself and you will find the answers you seek.
I think the record on the various eligibility lawsuits is pretty open and shut.