I agree it stinks. But it is the way the court works, especially when dealing with the president and presidency.
In all practical ways, the president is above the law, and the court treats him as such. The SCOTUS is still reeling from when FDR threatened to pack and dilute them, and remain to a great extent a 19th Century institution. And a timid one at that.
If the SCOTUS punts, and everyone else punts, knowing that 0bama is or most likely is ineligible, then great danger lies ahead. The thug marxist fraud is a criminal psychopath with backers and string pullers of the most evil kind.