The Supreme Court said Monday that it will not take up a longshot challenge to Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for president because of his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

The case was brought by John Anthony Castro, a little-known candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, who sued Trump earlier this year in an effort to disqualify him from running for president and holding the office “given his alleged provision of aid or comfort to the convicted criminals and insurrectionist that violently attacked our United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

[The district court rejected Castro’s lawsuit over standing, and Castro wanted the Supreme Court to force the case to trial. Other such challenges are on their way up the chain too, but I suspect that the court wants nothing to do with this novel reading of the 14th Amendment and the lack of any due process in the proposed disqualification process. — Ed]