Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson broke with her fellow justices Thursday regarding a fight over student ID and the midterm elections.
\n\nFox News reported Friday that Jackson was the only justice to publicly dissent while other justices may have done the same but chose not to be identified on the court order.
\n\nThe outlet said she stood alone against the court’s decision “allowing New Hampshire to block the use of student ID cards in the upcoming midterm elections.”
\n\nOther justices on the court cited the longstanding precedent “that lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election,” and said that lower courts failed to argue that the specific case in New Hampshire warranted an exception to the tradition. Jackson, however, argued the proximity to an election should not get in the way of properly applying the law.
\n\n“I respectfully dissent because — even, and perhaps especially, when an election is looming — I would not disturb a clearly justifiable federal-court order issued to ensure that the public receives accurate information about a State’s electoral processes,” she wrote.
\n\nState law currently bars the use of student IDs as a person’s main form of…
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