Without comment, the state Court of Appeals on Friday refused to hear an appeal in a legal challenge to Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s status as a “natural born” American citizen.

The complaint, dated Feb. 16 and received by the state Board of Elections the next day, does not contest that Cruz is a U.S. citizen and therefore eligible to serve in Congress. His mother was a U.S. citizen when Cruz was born in 1970 in Calgary, which conferred U.S. citizenship on him. (Cruz’s father was at the time a Cuban citizen.)

Cruz also gained automatic Canadian citizenship at birth, though he officially renounced it in 2014.

Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution states that, “no person except a natural born citizen … shall be eligible to the office of president.” The meaning of “natural born” has been kicked around by scholars — whether recognized or self-described — for years.

A state Supreme Court justice and the Appellate Division rejected the suit on grounds that the complaint, filed by two downstate men, was filed well past the deadline to challenge Cruz’s presence on the April 19 state primary ballot.

The rejection by the state’s highest court is the end of the road for the plaintiffs in New York State. Similar suits in other states have been rejected by the courts.