The Real ID act is set to be enforced between this and next year. It requires that you will need to provide government issues ID to travel by air domestically. The insanity. To believe that somehow. Some way. That terrorists within the US somehow by obtaining government ID will no longer terrorize. Frankly, it’s downright pathetic. My qualms with the rest of the bill aside, could we at least strike that down.
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I'm trying to understand what they're hoping to accomplish and why some (most) of us aren't grandfathered in automatically. I had to show my birth certificate to prove my age to get my learner's permit. Now I have to do it again to get a stamp on my DL in a state (same one I started driving in) that won't change my name on my license (despite it being on literally every other document with my name on it) because my maiden name wasn't in my divorce decree.
They refused my birth certificate, divorce decree, and social security card as proof of name change. They want me to go through the steps (and added fees) of going through the courts to change back to my maiden name. It's not like I pulled a name from a hat. It's my legal name.
One lawyer told me it was because they don't want me dodging creditors. No one gave a fuck about creditors when I got married.