Supreme Court Nixes PA Election Challenge Brought by Borowicz, Dush and Others

RecordStaffDecember 8, 2020Last Updated: December 8, 2020

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Then-candidates gathered in Lock Haven in July; from the left, state Auditor General, Tim DeFoor; state Senate, Cris Dush; US Congress, Fred Keller; state House, Stephanie Borowicz. All four were successful in November.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday denied an effort from 32 Republican legislators to overturn the Nov. 3 Pennsylvania election results. Among the 32 plaintiffs were Clinton County’s two elected officials in Harrisburg, state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz and state Sen. Cris Dush.

The Supreme Court issued a one-sentence denial without comment. The plaintiffs, led by U.S. Rep.. Mike Kelley, had been seeking to overturn the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s win in November. The ruling came after Pennsylvania recently certified its results.

The plaintiffs had argued a state election law, passed in 2019, and making provision for widespread mail-in voting, had been passed unconstitutionally, what it called “an unconstitutional, no-excuse absentee voting scheme.”

The plaintiffs had gone to the U.S. Supreme Court after the state Supreme Court ruled that the challenge had come too late, after the 2020 election, for a 2019 law.