Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the United States Constitution provides that only "a natural born Citizen" is eligible to serve as president.

While an Indian-born man attempted to challenge that decision, the Supreme Court recently rejected his case. 

Man sought to contest a New Jersey state Supreme Court ruling

According to Newsweek, that decision was handed down earlier this week in response to Shiva Ayyadurai, who sought to challenge an earlier decision from the New Jersey state Supreme Court.

Ayyadurai originally came to the United States over four decades ago, obtaining his bachelor's degree and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

After helping to develop email technology, he ultimately became an entrepreneur as well as a lecturer at MIT and the author of 10 books.

His attempt to register as a presidential candidate in New Jersey was challenged last year via a lawsuit launched by the state's Democratic Party.

Ayyadurai complains that Supreme Court lacked the "courage to take on the case"

Ayyadurai provided a statement to Newsweek which complained that America's highest judicial body "simply did not have courage to take on the case. The denial of a Writ of Certiorari means that."

Newsweek pointed out how Ayyadurai's name did ultimately turn up on presidential ballots in Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, and Washington.

Idaho's secretary of state says there was not enough time to remove Ayyadurai

Phil McGrane serves as Idaho's secretary of state, and he was quoted as telling Boise's KBOI that Ayyadurai's name would have been taken off the ballot had a complaint concerning his candidacy been received in time.

"We learned about it right at the print deadline for all of the ballots," McGrane told the local news outlet. "There was a scramble leading up to that and the deadline to get ballots printed."

This was not Ayyadurai's first foray into electoral politics, as in 2017 he attempted to challenge Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.