New: Late last night, the 5th Circuit sided with Texas in the fight over where voters can hand-deliver absentee ballots – Gov. Abbott's order restricting each county to one drop location will stand documentcloud.org/documents/7228… 
Here's background on Texas Gov. Abbott's Oct. 1 order banning counties from having more than oone site for voters to drop off ballots (in addition to being able to put them in the mail): buzzfeednews.com/article/claris…
A district court judge had blocked Abbott's order on Oct. 9, concluding that restricting the number of ballot drop sites at this point would only burden Texans' right to vote: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7224…
In last night's 3-0 5th Circuit order, the judges said you have to read a July order expanding early voting along with the Oct. 1 proclamation re: drop sites, and that taken together, voting access has still been easier this year in Texas assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7228…
The 5th Circuit then says that even taken on its own, the Oct. 1 order restricting the number of drop sites per county at most places a minimal burden on voting rights in the state
The 5th Circuit panel featured Judges Willett, Duncan, and Ho (all were confirmed under Trump and are on the president's SCOTUS shortlist). Ho wrote a concurrence criticizing Abbott for the Oct. 1 order as well, saying he was siding with the governor "grudgingly"
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