A suggestion for aspiring election law challengers: File suit before the election takes place

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court just threw out perhaps the most ambitious post-election lawsuit to date.

A group of Republican plaintiffs, including newly reelected Rep. Mike Kelly and defeated congressional candidate Sean Parnell argued before the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania that the state legislature’s pre-pandemic expansion of no-excuse absentee voting through Act 77 violates the state constitution, which explicitly lays out only four circumstances under which a person may vote absentee.