IIRC... U.S. Code, title 28, part IV, chapter 81, § 1251 offers a clarification
here that calls into question the editorialist's basic premise.
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(b) The Supreme Court shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction of:(1) All actions or proceedings to which ambassadors, other public ministers, consuls, or vice consuls of foreign states are parties;
(2) All controversies between the United States and a State;
(3) All actions or proceedings by a State against the citizens of another State or against aliens.
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