The court set an expedited briefing schedule as the clock winds down for clerks to mail absentee ballots ahead of the Nov. 5 election.Get daily updates on the Packers during the season. The liberal-majority court accepted a petition from the Wisconsin Elections Commission to bypass an appeals court and take the case directly.

The state's highest court plans to issue a decision "as expeditiously as possible" in the ongoing legal debate over whether former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name will appear on Wisconsin's November ballot.