| A federal judge in Georgia said an 11th-hour bid by the Republican Party to set aside some absentee votes from Democratic-leaning counties was rife with dishonesty, "red herrings" and demands that would have required him to break his oath to the Constitution. In a stinging oral ruling denying the Republican National Committee's bid for emergency action, U.S. District Judge R. Stan Baker, a Trump appointee, warned that the party's bid to toss absentee ballots collected in seven historically Democratic-leaning counties in Georgia over the weekend was based on "no supporting facts" and was an attempt to "tip the scales of this election by discriminating against" people less likely to back Republican candidates. Read the latest | 
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