The PA Supreme Court has rejected the Trump campaign's challenge to poll-watching in Philadelphia. Among other things, it says the campaign's own evidence shows Republican poll-watchers were able to stand close enough to see what was going on. 
The court rules that Philadelphia complied with state law when deciding where poll-watchers should be, that the city's rules were reasonable, and that they "allowed candidate representatives to observe the Board conducting its activities as the law requires.
Here's the opinion. There were two dissents: pacourts.us/assets/opinion…
The chief justice dissents, saying that video and other evidence shows observers were pretty far away, an intermediate court order allowing them closer, which let them determine "whether were being counted lawfully" and now counting is basically done and the case is moot.
Pennsylvania's Chief Justice says "the notion that presumptively valid ballots cast by the Pennsylvania electorate would be disregarded based on isolated procedural irregularities that have been redressed ... is misguided."
Here's the dissent: pacourts.us/assets/opinion…
This all amounts to a pretty thorough rejection by Pennsylvania's highest court of some of the claims Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was making - but not really litigating because the campaign dropped that part of its federal lawsuit - in a hearing in federal court today.
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