The Purcell Principle of Election and Voting Procedures

The Republican and this Lee high county race, you know, appealed that third circuit decision to the Supreme Court in an emergency motion. And they decided not to intervene, but Alito Thomas and Gorsuch dissented; Alito wrote: If anyone wants to apply for cert here, we should probably settle this question before the next election. The approach pretty transparently with this court has increasingly been which of that bundle of principles and precedents will I pick out of a quiver to get me what I want?