HARRISBURG — The deadline passed Friday for Gov. Tom Wolf's administration to comply with a subpoena from a Republican-controlled state Senate committee pursuing what the GOP calls a “forensic investigation” of last year's presidential election, as a state court sorted through three legal challenges.

Wolf's administration and Senate Republicans remained silent in the matter. The court was expected to set up an expedited briefing schedule in one or all of the cases.

Challengers, including Senate Democrats and state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, have sought broadly to block the subpoena, saying it is an abuse of legislative power, and in particular have challenged its request for the driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers of roughly 9 million registered voters.

Republicans maintain that they are attempting to find and fix problems in last year's presidential election and this year's primary election. Democrats accuse them of helping perpetuate the “big lie” of baseless claims that former President Donald Trump was cheated out of victory.

It's not clear whether Wolf's administration can be forced to comply with a subpoena.

Police report says candidate was sideswiped in crash

HARRISBURG — A candidate for governor driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike was sideswiped by a motorcyclist in a July nighttime crash that left the motorcyclist dead and the candidate traveling another 5 miles with the motorcycle lodged on his car, according to a new police report.

The Pennsylvania State Police have said little publicly about the July 21 crash just before 10 p.m. in an unlit stretch of the turnpike involving Charlie Gerow, a Republican candidate, and motorcyclist Logan Abbott.

In the nine-page police report, a state police investigator wrote that he could see marks on the driver's side of Gerow's Mercedes sedan “which were consistent with being side swiped” by the motorcycle.

The massive debris-littered crash scene in the westbound lanes in Chester County, just west of the King of Prussia interchange, forced the turnpike's closure for seven hours, police have said.

Gerow's lawyer has previously said that Gerow didn't hit the motorcyclist, only the motorcycle. Gerow hasn't been charged in the crash.

A state police spokesperson said the investigation “remains active and ongoing.”

By Associated Press