Georgia's highest court on Tuesday declined to fast-track an appeal of a decision blocking Republican-backed changes to the battleground state's election rules, making them unlikely to go into effect for the Nov.

The Georgia Supreme Court won’t let the state election board enforce a slate of controversial new election rules that were passed by allies of Donald Trump, ruling Tuesday against Republicans who asked for them to be revived as early voting got underway in the critical battleground state.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by national and state Republicans to immediately reinstate recently passed election rules that a judge had ruled were invalid.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox last week ruled that the State Election Board didn’t have the authority to adopt the new rules,

The decision is yet another legal setback for the state election board, which sought to implement an array of changes in the weeks and months before the November vote.

The Georgia Supreme Court will hear the RNC's appeal of a judge's decision to block several new election rules from taking effect.

Georgia judges are picking apart controversial new election rules in the state as record-breaking amid early voting. The rules, imposed by Georgia’s Republican-led State Election Board, stood to upend election procedures in the weeks before Election Day.

Georgia Republicans along with the Republican National Committee are appealing a recent decision by a Fulton County judge, which

Early voting began last Tuesday with a state record for voter turnout during the start of the advance voting period. The records continued all week.