Jackson argues that accurate guidance prevents voter confusion
Ketanji Brown JacksonSupreme Court justice, dissenting
Jackson dissents from the stay. She says the injunction addresses alleged misinformation without changing the law and promotes the interests protected by Purcell, including preventing voter confusion.
“When a federal court determines that material misrepresentations are being made about a State's election rules, an injunction to prohibit that conduct does not contribute to public confusion, it prevents that very problem.”
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Supreme Court pauses the New Hampshire student-ID ruling; challengers still contest the exclusion
On October 22 the Supreme Court paused an injunction that had allowed New Hampshire election officials to consider student IDs with other evidence of identity, granting a stay requested by Secretary of State David Scanlan. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. The Coalition for Open Democracy, which brought the lawsuit, continues to challenge HB 323, the separate law removing student IDs from the list of accepted IDs.
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The Court stays preliminary relief pending appeal. It does not finally decide the constitutional challenge.
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Jackson writes that the District Court's injunction was reasonably designed to address alleged misinformation, not to change the law.
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She writes that she would not disturb a clearly justifiable federal court order issued to ensure that the public receives accurate information about a State's electoral processes.
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The reference point is New Hampshire's exclusion of student IDs under the Secretary of State's directive. Jackson treats the state's guidance as a misrepresentation of its election rules and would leave the order correcting it in place, which criticizes the state's position rather than only disputing a label.
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