Of all the attacks Hawley could make, this is one's particularly dumb and false: the PA law expanding vote by mail was pased with near-unanimous Republican support in October 2019, and was in effect in the June primary, too. Wasn't challenged until weeks after Trump lost. (1/2) https://twitter.com/LACaldwellDC/status/1345577197545926656

Moreover, it is decidedly not the role of Congress to decide whether the PA Constitution was violated. Even if it were here (it wasn't), it would be insanely absurd and unconstitutional to erase the votes of ~2.6M Pennsylvanians who were told this was a valid way to vote. (2/2)

Just to add the obvious point: if the GOP had challenged the constitutionality *prior* to the November election, millions of Pennsylvanians who chose to vote by mail would have voted in person. And thousands would still have lawfully voted by mail under the prior law. (3/4)

As the Republican Chief Justice of @SupremeCtofPA wrote, "There has been too much good-faith reliance, by the electorate, on the no-excuse mail-in voting regime created by Act 77 to warrant judicial consideration of the extreme and untenable remedies proposed by Appellees." (4/4)

Morning! @MicheleHangley, who represented @PAStateDept, is right. The argument against extending PA's ballot receipt deadline was that it would violate Art II for a court to use state const'n to supersede legislature. Hawley now argues the exact opposite. https://twitter.com/MicheleHangley/status/1345721246642794497