Some new twists in the fight over how far past Election Day absentee ballots can be counted in Pennsylvania:
- Recall SCOTUS voted 4-4 not to disturb a PA Supreme Court decision that extended the deadline to Nov. 6: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/supreme-court-pennsylvania-count-ballots

- The PA Republican Party has now asked the PA Supreme Court to stay its decision re: the Nov. 6 deadline while it pursues a cert petition at SCOTUS (recall the last round was about an emergency stay application): https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Application-for-Relief.pdf-1.pdf

(HT to @SCOTUSblog for posting the docs)

- So now a cert petition has been filed with SCOTUS, and the PA GOP is asking the justices for "expedited consideration" —  "to decide the case on the merits before Election Day or, in the alternative, on an otherwise expedited schedule"

- Meanwhile, down the block from SCOTUS: the Senate is poised to vote on Monday to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the ninth justice, perhaps (but maybe not! who knows!) giving Republicans the vote they need to reinstate PA's Election Day deadline for absentee ballots

- Meanwhile pt. II: There's a separate case pending in federal court where a GOP congressional candidate and PA voters are challenging the PA Supreme Court's decision extending the absentee ballot deadline as unconstitutional. TRO hearing set for 10/27 https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7275818/10-22-20-Bognet-v-Boockvar-TRO-Motion.pdf