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WASHINGTON – A long-shot effort to over­turn the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion results in Penn­syl­va­nia made its way to the Supreme Court Tuesday.

Con­ser­v­a­tive Rep. Mike Kel­ly, R‑Pa., and oth­ers con­tend state offi­cials had no right under the Penn­syl­va­nia Con­sti­tu­tion to expand mail-in vot­ing in 2019, and the state Supreme Court was wrong to uphold that statute. The group called it “an uncon­sti­tu­tion­al, no-excuse absen­tee vot­ing scheme.”

“Pennsylvania’s Gen­er­al Assem­bly exceed­ed its pow­ers by uncon­sti­tu­tion­al­ly allow­ing no-excuse absen­tee vot­ing, includ­ing for fed­er­al offices, in the elec­tion,” the chal­lengers argued in court papers. As a result, the elec­tion was “con­duct­ed illegally.”