The Pennsylvania legislature is in a tight spot. Most of those Republicans are pretty moderate by national standards. Not a lot willing to rock-the-boat from what I see. But if they are suggesting by this vote to audit the election that they might not seat any electors from PA then the USSC has the ‘green light’ for a sweeping ruling in Pennsylvania and possibly other contested states.
The problem with this thinking is the impact of the 14th Amendment.
14th Amendment Clause 2
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
All it will take is for a voter (or perhaps a candidate Elector) to appeal to the Supreme Court that failure of the PA legislature to appoint Electors abridges the voters and must result in the disqualification of the entire Pennsylvania House delegation from Congress.
-PJ