Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court majority violated the United States Constitution by usurping the Pennsylvania General Assembly's plenary authority

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Just last year, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, consistent with the authority vested in it by the United States Constitution, enacted a statute unambiguously requiring that absentee and mail-in ballots be received by Election Day. Replacing that duly and recently enacted bipartisan policy decision with one entirely of its own making, a 4-3 majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended the received-by deadline for absentee and mail-in ballots until three days after Election Day. This same narrow majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court also required election officials to presume that ballots lacking legible postmarks received during this extended deadline were mailed by Election Day, rather than afterwards. While doing this, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court inexplicably and erroneously denied a motion for intervention by the leaders of the Pennsylvania House _ of Representatives, who were seeking to intervene on behalf of the majority caucus of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, one of the very bodies directly harmed by the courts decision. The important federal questions presented by this case are: 1. Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court majority violated the United States Constitution by usurping the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s plenary authority to “direct [the] Manner” for appointing electors for President and Vice President, U.S. Const. art. II, § 1, cl. 2, and its broad power to prescribe “[t]he Times, Places, and Manner” for congressional elections, id. art. I, § 4, cl. 1. ii 2. Whether the majority's extension and presumption conflict with and are preempted by federal statutes that establish a uniform nationwide federal Election Day. See 2 U.S.C. §§ 1, 7; 3 U.S.C. § 1. The questions presented in this Petition are identical to those presented by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania in its Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar, No. 20-542 (filed Oct. 23, 2020).