State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is “surprised and disappointed.”  Bloomberg reports:

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a lower-court judge’s ruling last month that the state’s voter-identification requirement is unconstitutional.  In an accompanying order issued today, the state’s top court also declined to review another judge’s order that temporarily blocked enforcement of the requirement that voters appear at their polling places bearing a government-issued photo identification.

The same day the orders were released, trial began in one of the voter ID challenges, Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP v. Walker.  Meanwhile, Governor Walker, who signed voter ID into law, faces recall elections May 8 (primary) and June 5, presumably without the safeguard of voter ID.  And coincidentally, Judge David Flanagan, who issued the temporary injunction blocking enforcement of voter ID and is hearing NAACP v. Walker, signed a petition to recall Walker.