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Extension of legal dateWhen will you answer question of whether Pennsylvania and other swing states acted illegally in letting
state functionaries make changes in election law that only state legislators are legally capable of making?
What changes to the laws?
U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Pa. mail-ballot deadline case as election challenges meet dead end
The decisions deny a Republican attempt to severely limit courts’ ability to oversee how elections are run.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won’t hear several challenges to Pennsylvania’s 2020 election — including two appeals of the state’s mail-ballot deadline extension — denying a Republican attempt to severely limit courts’ ability to oversee how elections are run.
The decision not to hear the legal challenges brought by top Republican state lawmakers and the state GOP ends litigation that prevented Pennsylvania from counting 10,000 mail ballots that arrived in the three days after Election Day and had remained in legal limbo. But one final legal challenge to those ballots remains before the high court, and the Pennsylvania Department of State isn’t counting them until that case is resolved. If counted, they would likely extend President Joe Biden’s 80,000-vote victory in the state.
The decisions show how the campaign to challenge and undermine the election results by Donald Trump and his allies outlasted even his presidency, and are only now close to coming to an end after meeting near-universal defeat in state and federal courts.
The decisions also set back a Republican push to significantly shift the election law landscape by essentially shutting out courts from making changes to election procedures.