Ketanji Brown Jackson issues public dissent in New Hampshire voting case

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly broke with her Supreme Court colleagues in a Thursday ruling allowing New Hampshire to fully block voters from using student IDs in the upcoming midterms.

Jackson, the high court’s most junior liberal justice, wrote in a short dissent that she would have left in place a lower court decision that found New Hampshire’s Republican secretary of state went too far with the voter identification restriction.

“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,” Jackson wrote.

None of the other justices publicly indicated their votes, which is common for cases decided on the court’s emergency docket. It is also not unusual for Jackson to dissent on her own.

The case stemmed from a law passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature earlier........

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