Zac Schultz:

The conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued two very important orders yesterday. The first puts a hold on Dane County’s health order shutting down all schools in the county. Private schools say the county doesn’t have the authority to force them to stay closed. The court’s order says schools can reopen while the case is argued. Second, the court ordered local election clerks to stop mailing absentee ballots and count how many have been sent out. This comes as multiple lawsuits are underway to determine whether the Green Party candidate and rapper Kanye West should be added to the ballot. By Thursday night, the Elections Commission told the court nearly 400,000 ballots have already been printed and it’s not clear how many have already been mailed. Clerks say forcing them to reprint could cause massive confusion and expenses and could cause municipal clerks to miss federal deadlines to mail the ballots.