I asked the same question some time ago. Perhaps ages ago, as part of the checks and balances system, they would have. It sounds logical to me, anyway. The response I got from my inquiry is that the SCOTUS only responds to a fraction of the cases as they make their way up from lower courts. They do not (at least not anymore) “look for business” on their own. It’s a shame ... you’d think it would be a priority to keep eyes open for crisis issues like this and head them off before the pot boils over. Still ... they are swamped in the same way as every other court in our contemporary compassionate legal system. The plate is only so big, and it is filled. I do hope, at least now that these cases have filtered up, they will but a great deal of priority on it now.