Hyderabad, Nov. 8 -- The federal Supreme Court has ordered Pennsylvania to keep the postal ballots that arrived after election day separately but did not agree to the Republican Party request to stop the vote-counting in the state where Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden has overtaken President Donald Trump.

Justice Samuel Alito issued the order Friday evening on a request for an emergency order filed by the Republican Party.

It gives room for the court to decide on a pending case over the legality of a state-level court order extending the deadline for accepting postal ballots to Friday.

The Supreme Court was split evenly, four votes for each side, on the case filed last month by the Republican Party to invalidate the state court ru...