Jeremy Roebuck

The suit pits Krasner, a frequent target of Republican ire, against Musk, one of Donald Trump's highest profile surrogates in the state, in the waning days of a close presidential race.

While voting advocates predict most of the challenges will be rejected, they say the campaign is yet another instance of a loose network of right-wing organizers sowing confusion ahead of Nov. 5.

The decision comes as Republicans have grown increasingly frustrated in recent days over the long lines outside the county administration building and satellite offices.

A Commonwealth Court decision Wednesday prompted predictions of chaos from some of the court’s judges and sent election administrators scrambling to parse its implications days before Election Day.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court made it clear it will not rule on undated ballots before voters go to the polls for Election Day next week.

Voting was largely unaffected, though polling location hours were extended, in some cases.

The brewing legal fights center on fewer than 1,600 ballots cast in four Democratic leaning counties. But the issue is of broader importance to both parties.

Federal authorities in Philadelphia listened in on the phone calls of George Norcross for months in 2016 before ultimately deciding years later they did not have a case.

The attorney general's filing comes after Norcross and his codefendants urged a Mercer County judge to toss racketeering and extortion charges against them before trial.

The filings show how the New Jersey power broker and Philadelphia labor leader raised money to support each other’s favored political candidates and leveraged their fiefdoms to advance their goals.