Happy Constitution Day! With 47 days to Election Day 2020, here's the news that you'll want to know:

(1) Breaking news: court rules Pennsylvania will accept ballots up to three days AFTER Election Day

(2) third-party group asks Fox News, other media outlets to "explain to the public" how they'll cover Election Day

(3) Democrats win their Pennsylvania lawsuit to get third-party candidate off the ballot

Breaking news: Pennsylvania will accept ballots up to three days AFTER Election Day

"State law says mail ballots must be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day, but the high court said Thursday that ballots will be counted if they are received by 5 p.m. the Friday after the Nov. 3 election. To count, ballots arriving after Election Day must either be postmarked by Nov. 3 or have no proof they were sent afterward. Ballots that arrive by the new deadline with missing or illegible postmarks would still be counted." (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• What's happening: In surprising news, Pennsylvania's new court ruling could put thousands more ballots into play in the 2020 election.

The key facts, as reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer:

-- Normally, the mail-in ballot deadline is 8PM on Election Day.

-- Today the court ruled that the NEW mail-in ballot deadline is 5PM on Friday, November 6. That's three days after Election Day, November 3.

-- From what we've seen so far, ballots must have a November 3 postmark OR "no proof they were sent afterward" (we're looking for clarification on what that means) OR have a missing or illegible postmark.

• What's at stake: First, this is widely seen as great news for Joe Biden's struggling campaign, but bad news for President Trump.

Pennsylvania is a must-win state for President Trump's campaign. And it has a narrow margin of victory: he won by just over 44,000 votes in 2016.

Second, we have just one really big question: if you have a ballot in an unmarked (i.e. not postmarked) envelope on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday before 5PM ... will it be counted? Because that raises some concerning implications.

We'll keep you in the loop as this story develops.

Watchdog group wants Fox News and other media outlets to "explain to the public" how they'll cover Election Day.

"The National Task Force on Election Crises, a group of election experts and academics, released a letter Thursday that it sent to The Associated Press, Fox News and the National Election Pool, which includes the three broadcast networks and CNN, urging them to explain to the public how they intend to incorporate the expected avalanche of mail ballots in how they announce winners up and down the ballot." (The Hill)

• What's happening: A third-party "watchdog" group wants major media organizations to publicize their Election Day coverage plans ... for what seems to us like the group of academics and former political professionals to approve of (to which we say: huh?).

The group's concern is that a winner may be forecasted too early on Election Day.

• What's at stake: We'd note two things.

(1) This is an unusual election, so it does require special acknowledgements.

FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub already warned Americans that there's a "substantial chance" the election results won't be known on Election Day, November 3. That's because a large amount of absentee and mail-in ballots are expected this year.

It's also unlike previous election years, in which Americans have been accustomed to having the results "called" at some point that night.

(2) But Democrats are creating a crisis -- and then playing directly into it.

Democrats have run wild with a conspiracy theory that President Trump "won't accept" the results of the November election if he doesn't win.

But Hillary Clinton is the one who said that Joe Biden "should not concede under any circumstances" ... and the entire Democratic Party seems to accept and promote that Stacey Abrams is the "real" governor of Georgia after she lost the election.

Bottom line: Americans -- and the media -- must be smart and savvy as Election Day gets closer. But that includes not going along with the conspiracy theories of the left, especially when they're the ones playing into them.

Democrats sue to get third-party candidates off Pennsylvania ballot -- and win.

"The Green Party's candidate for president did not strictly follow procedures for getting on Pennsylvania's ballot in the November election and cannot appear on it, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, delivering a win for Democrats as Joe Biden tries to capture the battleground state's electoral votes." (WSLS 10 News)

• What's happening: Democrats' lawsuit to force a Green Party candidate off the ballot in Pennsylvania was successful. The Green Party's presidential candidate won't appear on ballots in the state because the formal paperwork included a faxed, rather than original, document.

A lower court in the state had ruled the error could be fixed; the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned that decision.

• What's at stake: Many Democrats still blame Jill Stein, the Green Party's 2016 nominee, for Hillary Clinton's loss -- even though the math doesn't prove the case.

Now that fight is coming to the 2020 election, too.

-- In Texas, Democrats filed a lawsuit that led to three Green Party candidates from ballots.

-- In Wisconsin, Green Party candidates are off the ballots.

And, although he's not a Green Party candidate, Kanye West's candidacy has also faced legal challenges that has led to his removal from some states' ballots.

Bottom line: Given the very narrow margin for victory in battleground states, Democrats don't want third-party candidates to easily siphon off votes that could otherwise go to Joe Biden.