it’s clearly issued by the Federal gov’t and has been in use for at least 2 years. Hundreds of people fly Jet Blue daily. It’s not like he was trying to use it as ID in a barbecue joint in some remote rural area.
“Clearly” is a matter of perspective. I could make an ID that says it came from the federal government, but was just a hunk of paper I made up and laminated. 2 years isn’t a long time, especially for an ID that only a small percentage of people have. Hundreds of people might fly Jet Blue daily, but probably most of them present driver’s licenses as their ID, and anybody using passports would probably use full passports since the passcard is specifically no good for going through airport customs. Under 3 million passcards that have been issued, it’s not a common ID, Americans historically aren’t into passports, back before we needed them to come back from Mexico only about 10% of Americans had them.