HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the state’s mail-in voting law after a state appellate court declared it unconstitutional earlier this year.

The state’s highest court upheld Act 77 of 2019, deeming the law constitutional. Act 77 of 2019 expanded the state’s mail-in voting law by creating a no-excuse mail voting option. In 2019, the law’s passage was widely lauded by Republicans and Democrats as the most significant update to the state’s election code in more than 80 years. It passed the 253-member General Assembly with nearly unanimous and bipartisan support.

The state Supreme Court on Tuesday again upheld the state’s mail-voting law in a 5-2 decision, with Justices Kevin Brobson and Sallie Updyke Mundy dissenting. The majority opinion said they found “no restriction in our Constitution on the General Assembly’s ability to create universal mail-in voting,” according to the ruling authored by Justice Christine Donohue.

Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law has come under fire from Republicans in the years since former President Donald Trump began casting doubt on the safety and security of mail voting during the 2020 election. Since then, the law has been tested in state appellate courts numerous times, before it ultimately has been upheld by the Democrat-majority state Supreme Court.