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So, I think you are referring to a triad of cases that went before SCOTUS just before the election. PA, WI, and NC.I don't think courts will do shit....but from what I understand, election laws are to be made at the state level, by state legislatures. I believe many of the covid changes were made by state courts. So the legal challenge at the Supreme Court would be did the state courts have the authority to make those changes? If not the votes that were cast in the manner found to be unconstitutional wouldn't count.
I could be wrong and I don't think it'll go anywhere but that's what i heard.
WI involved a federal court order changing WI voting law to allow an extension for accepting late mail in ballots. SCOTUS overturned that, and WI did not count late-mailed votes.
NC involved a change by the state board of elections, which a NC federal court upheld (osteen is a bush appointee, fwiw). Scotus agreed, 5-3, that NC's board of elections was empowered to make those changes, unlike a change made by a federal court directly.
PA is the one you are probably thinking of. It involved a change by a state court to election laws-it is the only example I am aware of (there's a separate argument over whether it was a change but that's not germane). Scotus hasn't decided that yet, and noted they were less willing to overturn state court decisions affecting state law. They have stated that they will revisit it if the amount of votes affected would change the outcome of the election. Per SCOTUS's order, these votes were segregated and separately tallied, but Biden appears to have won without them. If that holds up, that case will be dismissed as moot.