I wonder how they're forming this lawsuit to fall under SCOTUS original jurisdiction. The only paths are State v. State or State v. United States. Remember the last time there was the Texas et. al. v. Pennsylvania case where SCOTUS had original jurisdiction and they issued an unsigned order saying that Texas had no standing.

Justice Alito stated in his dissent that there was precedent that they had no discretion in hearing a case where they had original jurisdiction. Which makes sense; otherwise that leaves no recourse for the complainant to seek a judicial remedy.

But the chief justice is a coward and wouldn't even sign the order denying the case on standing. I see this same situation playing out again. Roberts will deny this case on standing and do so with an unsigned order. There will be no recourse for the states, and we'll be back to square one.