No, the PA Supreme Court ruled that the changes were legal and supported by the free and equal elections provision in the PA constitution.
We may not agree with their reasoning but it's hard to imagine any state supreme court saying it's OK for the legislature to flatly ignore existing law and unilaterally decide how to choose electors without going through the constitutional process.
If the PA supremes said the legislature could do it then we would have an analogous situation.
It hasn't been needed before because the opposition hasn't been as brazen before, and politically it would have been a risk before.
So in 230 years no legislatures of any party decided to use this incredible power? Color me skeptical.
It's time for the Republicans to stake out the claim that they have the Constitutional power to set Elector selection law, and the court had no jurisdiction to change their laws.
Sorry, but I think the notion that a legislature can unilaterally create laws in contravention of the constitution that created it is nuts.
Do you expect Pennsylvania to create a chaotic situation such that they fail to meet the safe harbor date for the Electoral College and therefore don't participate?
My Florida timeline at the start shows what happens if they take 10 days out of the calendar due to counting the votes. They are robbing time from the post-election challenge period.
Am I to conclude that you would prefer the entire disenfranchisement of the state of Pennsylvania to the legislature stepping in to keep the state in the Electoral College?
-PJ