(CNN) President Donald Trump stacked the federal judiciary long before nominating his third Supreme Court justice . "An utter dearth of absentee fraud," wrote US District Judge J. Michelle Childs in slamming Republican insistence on witnesses for absentee voting in a South Carolina case. In Pennsylvania, US District Judge Nicholas Ranjan deferred to the state Supreme Court's decision to extend absentee ballot deadlines and permit the use of drop-boxes for those ballots. Analysts project as many of 100,000 of them in a state Trump won by only 44,000 votes. Republicans plan to appeal the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's rulings on absentee ballot deadlines to the US Supreme Court.

Source: CNN September 27, 2020 11:48 UTC