This week, Pennsylvania's Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit appeal that dealt with a Senate committee subpoena for private voter data.

This was a case that started back in fall of 2021, when the Pennsylvania Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee subpoenaed the State Department for election related data to inform election law.

The request included personal data like drivers license numbers, addresses, and partial social security numbers of all 9 million of Pennsylvania's registered voters.

Republicans made the request as part of their inquiry into the 2020 general election and 2021 primary.

The State Department refused, filing a lawsuit arguing the request broke Pennsylvanian's Constitutional right to privacy.

Senate Republicans filed a suit in return, asking courts to enforce the subpoena.

Senate Democrats and multiple non-profits joined the State Department's suit, saying the committee did not provide specific reason for why they needed the data along with the privacy argument.

The Republican's case was dismissed by the Commonwealth Court last February- under the argument that the subpoena request dissolved at the end of the 2020/21 legislative session.

An appeal to that decision was dismissed by Pennsylvania's Supreme Court this week on Wednesday, February 21.