Without it going to trial we'll never know, and we all know why the court's won't go anywhere near that political football for fear of being sacked as soon as they touch it. The Democrat force was strong in their opinions, and the court's wanted to stay out of it because they didn't want the mob after them, otherwise like they still ran into over the R-v-W case now being revisited.
Hopefully they've grown some, and aren't intimidated as much as they were in the recent past. The law must rule again, instead of deflecting out of fear or going along to get along.