[Cicero]

Exactly. SCOTUS stepped in and did the right thing on the AlGore Chad scam and SCOFLAw. But they got an immense amount of heat for it.

When a similar illegality arose later that year in New Jersey, where the state Supreme Court illegally inserted Lautenberg on the ballot after the legal deadline had passed, SCOTUS decided to punt.

You could argue that that was more of a state matter than the Florida affair, even if the court decided it illegally. Or you could argue that they just didn’t want to take the heat twice in a row for a political decision.

[BP2]

Exactly. SCOTUS stepped in and did the right thing on the AlGore Chad scam and SCOFLAw. But they got an immense amount of heat for it.

In 2008, many Dems considered Obama's win as PAYBACK for Bush "stealing" the 2000 election from Gore.

Imagine ... just imagine ... the UPROAR from the Left if the SCOTUS had ruled AGAINST the British Subject's Eligibility during the MSM's 2008 slobbering lovefest of Barack Obama — once again "stealing" victory from the Democrats; in 2008, no less than from the FIRST-ever Black president.

Generically-speaking, in such a situation the stakes would naturally get progressively higher and higher as a questionable presidential candidate weaves through his Party's Convention nomination in August, leading up to the November Election and January Inauguration. Unfortunately, that's why the "natural-born Citizen" issue was never resolved back in 1968 following Gov. George Romney's — born of TWO American parents in the Mormon colonies in Mexico — failure to grab the GOP's Presidential nomination on August 5-8, 1968. A case was being built by his opposition, but later dropped because George Romney was no longer a threat.

I'm sure such hurdles were being purposefully-tracked and navigated by Obama and his attorneys in 2008 — exploiting Standing and Political Question all the way through — until his Inauguration, where Obama assumed that he would then become more protected and Untouchable. Later as we recall, the Arrogant One would go so far as to publicly chide the SCOTUS in his 2010 State of the Union address ... about the only Governmental body that could undo him because of his in-Eligible status.

Remember, too, that many Conservative were SHAMED, so far as to NOT even use Obama's middle name of HUSSEIN, until Obama decided in December 2008 to use it for his Oath of Office on January 20 (and Jan 21).

Conservatives were PLAYED in 2008 — hopefully they've since learned how to effectively fight against the Left's use of SHAME & GUILT in playing the RACE CARD as a political weapon.

I've observed that Court's resistance to Political Question cases generally fades away when Political Capital has been spent and a politician's popularity is fleeting. We've seen that time and time again with Executives like Nixon, Bill Clinton, Blago and others. The reality is that Judges and Prosecutors generally do NOT like to butt heads with a popular Executive.

Considering Obama's currently plummeting popularity numbers, it's far more likely that the SCOTUS would find it more palatable to resolve this issue regarding Obama's Eligibility, as well as set Precedence for other presidential candidates appearing on ballots at some point in the future.