🗞️ Story file #854
Supreme Court allows New Hampshire to ban student IDs for voting
Oct 22, 8 PM ET to Oct 25, 5 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 21outlets carried it
- 🫏7 · 3 · 10🐘left · center · right
- 2.4 dayson the front pages
- 20front pages at once, at its peak
- 3 minof TV captions
- 3radio newscasts
- 24people retold it online
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 22, 8 PM ETfirst on a front page: CBS News
- Oct 23, 3 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 23, 7 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages
- Oct 24, 8 AM ETretold online by 24 people
- Oct 24, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire
💬 quoted: “Loophole”
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 court sides
✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Breitbart (3 wordings): “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Breaks with SCOTUS in Voter ID Fight” → “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Breaks with SCOTUS in New Hampshire Voter ID Fight”
- Fox News (3 wordings): “Supreme Court blocks use of student IDs as voter identification in New Hampshire” → “Jackson again publicly breaks with Supreme Court as justices side with GOP in last-minute voter ID fight”
- The Federalist (2 wordings): “Breaking News Alert *** Breaking *** SCOTUS Says New Hampshire Can Close Student ID 'Loophole' In Elections Breaking ***” → “SCOTUS Says New Hampshire Can Close Student ID ‘Loophole’ In Elections”
- Townhall (2 wordings): “GOP Scores Voter ID in New Hampshire.” → “Voter ID GOP Scores Voter ID in New Hampshire. Matt Vespa”
- Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Supreme Court sides with Republicans in New Hampshire student ID voting fight” → “Supreme Court sides with GOP in New Hampshire student ID voting fight”
Every outlet's first headline (21), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Supreme Court Allows New Hampshire To Fully Ban Student IDs For Voting In Midterms Oct 23, 12 AM ET
The Guardian
US supreme court sides with Republicans on rejecting student IDs in New Hampshire midterms Oct 23, 5 PM ET
CBS News
Supreme Court rules New Hampshire can ban use of student IDs for voters Oct 22, 8 PM ET
CNN
Supreme Court says New Hampshire can limit use of student IDs for voting Oct 22, 8 PM ET
NBC News
Supreme Court says New Hampshire student IDs can’t be used to vote in November Oct 22, 7 PM ET
USA Today
GOP wins Supreme Court fight over student IDs at polls Oct 22, 7 PM ET
Yahoo News
Supreme Court sides with Republicans in New Hampshire student ID voting fight Oct 22, 9 PM ET
Bloomberg
Supreme Court Backs Republicans on New Hampshire Voter IDs Oct 22, 7 PM ET
Newsweek
Ketanji Brown Jackson Breaks With SCOTUS Voting Order as Election Looms Oct 23, 12 AM ET
The Hill
Ketanji Brown Jackson issues public dissent in New Hampshire voting case Oct 23, 8 PM ET
Just the News
Supreme Court rules New Hampshire student IDs cannot be used to vote in November Oct 22, 8 PM ET
The Epoch Times
Supreme Court Allows New Hampshire to Bar Student IDs at Polls for Midterms Oct 22, 9 PM ET
Washington Examiner
Supreme Court allows New Hampshire to bar student IDs for voting Oct 22, 8 PM ET
Breitbart
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Breaks with SCOTUS in Voter ID Fight Oct 23, 4 PM ET
Fox News
Supreme Court blocks use of student IDs as voter identification in New Hampshire Oct 23, 5 AM ET
Newsmax
Supreme Court Backs N.H. Student ID Voting Restrictions Oct 22, 11 PM ET
The Federalist
Breaking News Alert *** Breaking *** SCOTUS Says New Hampshire Can Close Student ID 'Loophole' In Elections Breaking *** Oct 22, 8 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
Supreme Court Says New Hampshire Can Ban Voters from Using Student IDs at Polls in Midterms – Ketanji Brown Jackson Dissents Oct 22, 10 PM ET
The Western Journal
Breaking: SCOTUS Rulings Hands GOP Voter ID Win in New Hampshire Just in Time for Midterms Oct 22, 8 PM ET
Townhall
GOP Scores Voter ID in New Hampshire. Oct 23, 4 PM ET
The Washington Sun
Supreme Court Rules New Hampshire Can Limit Student ID Use for Voting Oct 22, 7 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- SECURING OUR ELECTIONS. FOX POLL: MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT VOTER ID Fox News, 2 min
- "VOTER SUPPRESSION". ABDUL EL-SAYED SLAMS CALLS FOR VOTER ID Fox News, 50 s
- ATTACKING VOTER ID. DEMOCRATS PUSH BACK ON WIDELY POPULAR POLICY Fox News, 12 s
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 23, 12:09 PM ET: story 3 of 6
- NPR News Now, Oct 23, 8:09 AM ET: story 3 of 7
- NPR News Now, Oct 23, 3:10 AM ET: the lead
🧶 Retelling
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- 🧩 Captured court
🧶 online
“The Supreme Court allowed New Hampshire to bar student IDs from being used as voter identification.” - 🧩 Hometown ribbing
🧶 online
“Nobody in New England likes New Hampshire because it is a mean, shitty place with messed up politics.” - 🧩 Voter suppression
🧶 online
↔️ its answer: Ballot security, Voter fraud
“The Supreme Court allowed New Hampshire to bar student IDs from being used as voter identification.” and 1 more
🧶 Retold online
- The Supreme Court allowed New Hampshire to bar student IDs from being used as voter identification. Oct 24: told by 14 people; told before on Oct 23
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 8 likes, 4 reposts
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 7 likes, 6 reposts
- Nobody in New England likes New Hampshire because it is a mean, shitty place with messed up politics. Oct 24: told by 10 people (same issue)
🧩 Hometown ribbing
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🧩 Hometown ribbing
🗣️ names in it: Supreme Court New Hampshire Republican Party
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