The suit, filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, alleges that it was a political decision and violated the companies' due process.
Casey's concession comes more than two weeks after Election Day, as a grindingly slow ballot-counting process became a spectacle of hours-long election board meetings, social media outrage, lawsuits and accusations that some county officials were openly flouting the law.
Pennsylvania's state Supreme Court on Monday weighed in on a flashpoint amid ongoing vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick, ordering counties not to count mail-in ballots that lack a correct handwritten date on the return envelope.
The race for US Senate remains undecided as it heads to an automatic recount. US Sen. Bob Casey trails McCormick by less than 0.5% and continues to cut into McCormick’s lead.
Democrats are pushing those who live in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties and voted by mail to check the status of their mail-in ballots and fix any potential issues by Tuesday with the US Senate race being too close to call.
The Associated Press called the race Thursday, though Casey did not concede. With votes still being counted, McCormick led Casey by about 31,000 votes, or half a percentage point.
Pennsylvania Republicans swept the three statewide row offices and defeated longtime Democratic incumbents across the board.
Bob Casey and Matt Cartwright announced $8.9 million in funding from the Biden-Harris’ Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to revive Scranton’s passenger rail service to New York City.
US Sen. Bob Casey met with voters in New Cumberland on Thursday and called for renewing the child tax credit and passing a middle class tax cut following the election.
Protecting abortion access and reproductive rights were a main topic during Tuesday’s debate between US Sen. Bob Casey and Dave McCormick. Casey explained how he’s evolved on the issues following the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
