As you frequently lament, SCOTUS could have taken the NBC issue up, perhaps with one of Donofrio’s cases. But the riots scenario was very real and they already had been slammed for Bush v. Gore and accused of “selecting” Bush.
And what if they had declared Barry ineligible in early January 2009? POTUS Biden? POTUS ineligible McCain?
The two inaugurations of Barry have set precedent that one US citizen parent claimed to have been born on US soil is sufficient. Rubio and Jindal have no US citizen parents and Cruz wasn’t US born so none of them have he same fact pattern as Barry and are thus risky and open to Democrat “birthers” and GOP primary challenger “birthers.”
I see Arpaio’s efforts as being the last best chance of getting Barry removed, but how many hundreds of millions of dollars and how many thugs would Barry have available if needed to kill Arpaio’s investigation?
Squashing an investigation in itself leaves a trail. The bastard-in-chief is a democrip, so he probably believes he is above the niggling laws. But eventually the criminality goes right back to the lying sonofabitch and his fraudulent profile.