Elon Musk’s massive investment in a Wisconsin Supreme Court election didn’t pay off after a liberal judge secured a victory that could tarnish the billionaire’s political clout and trigger worry for some Republicans about how voters are processing the opening months of President Trump’s new administration.

National Democrats sent in millions for the liberal's campaign while Trump endorsed — and Musk financed — the conservative's. Abortion, redistricting and Tesla could come before the court.

The Wisconsin Catholic Charities case has implications for other religiously connected nonprofits, including hospitals, and for state unemployment systems.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Monday to hear a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from the state's unemployment insurance tax in the latest religious rights case to reach the justices.