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 has rejected an attempt by national and state Republicans to immediately reinstate recently passed election rules that a judge had ruled were invalid.

The Supreme Court of Georgia rejected Republicans' effort to reinstate seven new rules for the Nov. 5 election, including a ballot hand-count rule.

Georgia’s highest court has reversed a judge’s contempt ruling against a lawyer for rapper Young Thug who refused to tell the judge how he found out about a meeting between the judge, prosecutors and a prosecution witness.

The Georgia supreme court on Tuesday rejected a Republican-led emergency appeal to get seven rules, most notably one that requires poll workers to count ballots by hand, reinstated in the last two weeks before the November election.

The Georgia Supreme Court rejected a last-minute push by the Republican Party to reinstate a set of new election rules that included, among other things, a requirement that ballots be hand-counted in the upcoming US presidential contest.

Georgia's Supreme Court has rejected a Republican-led effort to reinstate seven new election rules, approved by the State Election Board, before Election Day as early voting is underway in the battleground state.