2 More States Tell Govie Hell No

[Dubh Aingeal]

New Hampshire and Oklahoma have joined Montana and Washington state in passing statutes refuting the ID act's guidelines.

However, these actions could eventually lead to drivers licenses issued in these states to not be accepted as official identification when boarding airplanes or accessing federal buildings. In addition to these four states, members of the Idaho legislature intentionally left out money in the budget to comply with the Act.

[Amerist]

Something tells me that the line, "these actions could eventually lead to drivers licenses issued in these states to not be accepted as official identification when boarding airplanes or accessing federal buildings," while scary on the face of it, will prove to be total hot air. Those Sates who refuse to opt in to this federal ID would suddenly become rogue territories overnight (which should literally be impossible), it would interfere substantially with interstate trade, and run afoul of so many provisions of trade practice, civil liberties, States rights, and every other facet of social glue that makes the States chummy the results would be ... unthinkable.

Furthermore, there is no one ID that lets people into federal buildings already, nor onto airplanes. License, State ID, Military ID, Passport ...

It would be a political meltdown to require this Federal ID for things such as travel and entering federal buildings... A single State is a large and rather noticeable entity--four States is difficult to ignore--suddenly, literally cutting off most of their mid-level bureaucrats from the Federal government and everyone would feel the bite.

No. The ID might go through, but it won't bar their citizens from commerce or the government. What might happen is the federal government might just decide to stop funding things, which is how they usually tow the States into line.