The U.S. Supreme Court Should Act On Pennsylvania s Vote Count
The United States Constitution could not be clearer that state legislatures, not courts, make the laws that regulate how elections are held in each state. That s not happening right now in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, one of a handful of states that elect state Supreme Court justices in partisan elections.
Earlier this year in Pennsylvania, the Democrat-dominated state Supreme Court ruled that ballots could be counted up to three days after Election Day, even if it could not be shown that they had arrived by November 3, as required by state law.
Fascinating question. The set up for a truly deep finding by the Solons of our highest court. What is the state law? Is not the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (or whatever it is called) the highest interpreter of Pennsylvania’s sovereign utterances? Does any weight have to be given to the judgement of the federal jurists that the state court’s interpretation is so obviously political? I hope they get a chance to decide this question, but mostly for selfish reasons of wondering what they would do with it. I would understand if they chose to avoid the issue for reasons of their own.