Supreme Court lets New Hampshire ban student IDs for voting

The justices granted a Republican-backed emergency appeal, blocking student IDs as a backup way to prove a voter's identity in the midterms.

The unsigned, one-paragraph ruling cites the Purcell principle: federal courts should ordinarily not change election rules on the eve of an election. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only justice to publicly dissent.

Why it matters

The ruling comes less than two weeks before New Hampshire voters cast ballots in a closely contested U.S. Senate race.