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I know that, but it's required to have citizenship documents on file to get a Real ID compliant driver's license or ID card. My wife had to file a certified copy of her birth certificate plus a certified translation in English to the DPS in addition to her Ukrainian passport in order to apply for a Texas driver's license. When my wife got her US citizenship, that information got forwarded over to the Texas DPS. Her mother who is currently in the US has a Texas ID card. She had to provide all that data to the Texas DPS to get the ID card which she uses for any purpose an ID is required like going to a doctor's office and boarding a domestic flight in the US.

I don't think illegal aliens are currently being boarded on commercial flights in the US. I don't want anyone who can't be positively identified on aircraft in the US. I also want all voters positively identified when they vote. In Texas only Real ID drivers' licenses and ID cards have been issued since October 2016. Basically in order to vote in Texas, a registered voter must present a Real ID compliant photo ID just as a traveler who is flying on a commercial plane in the US must show a Real ID compliant ID.

Gee, I wonder why SFO was exempted from having TSA perform security checks in favor of a private security company?

Voter registration is at the state level. In Texas all voter registrations are tied to drivers' licenses or state ID's.

I don't want unknown people flying on airplanes. Anyway, ID's are pretty useful for other things. Try looking at real estate, or test driving cars without an ID. Try buying restricted prescription medicines, firearms, ammunition, alcohol, entering night clubs, secure government buildings, even private buildings without a trusted secure ID.

Well several states didn't want to issue secure ID's. California didn't want illegal aliens to be kicked out based on Real ID's, so they have both a Real ID version and an insecure version. Don't try buying firearms or ammunition with anything but a Real ID compliant ID. Since several states dragged their feet, the deadlines were extended. Now that all states are on board and have been issuing Real ID compliant ID's for awhile, the TSA can start enforcing the law. In some of the states that have only recently started issuing Real ID compliant ID's, there are still lots of people lacking Real ID compliant ID's. They need to make appointments with their states' DMV's or whatever state agencies issue ID's and get an updated ID before their current ones expire.

Texas has been only issuing compliant ID's so long that the earliest ones have already expired. There are no currently valid Texas ID's that are not compliant with Real ID requirements. I didn't bother renewing my Texas driver's license early, because I had a passport card in my wallet that was still valid to cover the short interval when my driver's license would not be in compliance based on an earlier deadline.

Any challenges are going to be fast tracked to the Supreme Court.

They do now except for repatriation flights.

In addition to state issued drivers’ licenses and ID cards, several federally issued ID cards are also Real ID compliant. There are federal employee ID cards, military ID’s, and passports (both book and card versions).

Some states didn’t want to issue Real ID compliant ID’s. California issues noncompliant ID’s that can’t be used to enter secure federal buildings, buy firearms, or board aircraft. They also issue Real ID compliant ID’s and drivers’ licenses that can be used for every purpose a Real ID is required. Basically a Real ID requires the same verification of identity as a passport. Texas only issues Real ID compliant ID’s and has done so since October 2016.

The Real ID Act was passed in 2005. The deadline for enforcement has been extended several times. It’s time for it to be enforced. Texas has been issuing Real ID compliant drivers’ licenses and ID cards since October 2016. It’s been so long that the first compliant Texas ID’s have already expired.

Maybe Brown University should get a subtle hint from the Trump administration. It would be just as easy to cut federal funds to Brown as it was to Columbia.

The pilot had poor fuel management. He shouldn’t have been cutting it so close.

But in the US, businesses that don’t comply can get sued in US courts that do not have a loser pays rule.

I wouldn't be surprised if some trans idiot gets shot going into a women's restroom. There are lots of states that don't even require a license to carry a concealed weapon.

This is in the UK not the US. In the US a business prohibiting a real service animal would face fines and lawsuits.

He lives in the UK. In the US, these business owners would be sued out of existence by trial lawyers working on contingency fees.

Republicans need to make sure that they don’t nominate a whack job candidate for governor in 2028 like the one they had in NC this year.

These are the stories being told by Republican members of the House who were there. Several of these representatives are now Senators. That’s a bid reason a number of Republican senators were saying it was unlikely Gaetz would be confirmed by the Senate. In a defamation lawsuit the burden of proof would be in Gaetz to prove the accusations false.

I seriously doubt that there was any libel. Gaetz had a reputation in the House for showing pictures on the House floor to his colleagues pictures of young women he claimed to have slept with and of parties he went to to where there were drugs and young girls.

This thread is pretty stupid when You consider Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his nomination for Attorney General. Also Gaetz resigned from Congress, so his seat is now vacant. Potentially he could run in the special election to return to his seat in the House, but as soon as he could get sworn in, the House Ethics committee could reopen his ethics case and release it. He’s toast! And he has no future in politics in Washington, DC.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/21/matt-gaetz-withdraws-attorney-general-nomination-senator/76480838007/