I know a lot else is going on today, but the GOP President Pro Tempore of the PA Senate just flat-out refused to seat a Democratic senator-elect, despite his win being certified and upheld by the state Supreme Court.

And tossed the Lt. Governor out of the chamber for objecting.
The rationale is that Sen.-elect Brewster only won by a few hundred votes, and the margin was decided by mail-in ballots that his Republican opponent contested.

But the Supreme Court ALREADY RULED those ballots legal, under a law that the Republican legislature itself passed.
I don't know exactly what the legal process is from here, but it seems to me that PA Senate Republicans are at best in contempt of the state Supreme Court, and at worst staging a bloodless coup.
More info/longer thread on the situation: https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1346519659005284353
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