At issue, however, was a potentially important question for the 2024 election about whether state legislatures or the state supreme courts have the final word on a state’s election rules. AdvertisementLawyers for Pennsylvania Republicans urged the court to rule that the Constitution gave only state legislatures the final word on the election rules. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed and adopted this rule for the 2020 election. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed and ruled that ballots that were put in the mail by election day could be counted if they arrived by Nov. 6. There “is a strong likelihood that the state Supreme Court’s decision violates the federal constitution,” they wrote.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 22, 2021 15:13 UTC