Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by Pennsylvania GOP

“The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal of Pennsylvania’s mail-ballot deadline extension in the 2020 election, declining to take up a Republican attempt to severely limit courts’ ability to oversee how elections are run,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

“It also denies a Republican attempt to significantly shift the election law landscape by essentially shutting out courts from making changes to election procedures. The U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures the power to decide how elections are run, but that has in the past been understood to mean the normal legislative process, including sign-off from governors and judicial review of the law.”

Rick Hasen has more analysis of the decision.