Justice Clarence Thomas analogized the requirement to show ID for alcohol or tobacco purchases, which are longstanding and widely accepted practices.
Last I checked my ID isn’t uploaded to a server and stored in a database when I buy alcohol.
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It's starting to go that way. I work in event food service. For a long time, our university clients in the US didn't want alcohol sales. Now, that's starting to shift but we are required to use ID scanners. They do some verification that catches bad fakes and underage IDs, but they also store logs of every scan. Later, if there's an incident, the university can ask us to dump the logs and we can tell from them when and where a specific person purchased alcohol anywhere on campus.
It isn't storing a complete, usable image of the ID, however. Just the data encoded in the barcode.
Echoes of Bong Hits for Jesus. We're once again empowering the police state to harass anyone espousing unapproved political speech.
Something something "Just like in North Korea" something something.
What supreme court? Maybe mention the country?
Justice Clarence Thomas... sound like USA