Originally Posted by
gsoltso
There may have been a time where the states and territories were lagging behind, but that is not the case now. I just think that will be what they trot out as the reasoning. I think it is becoming a political problem at this point. Noone wants to be the one that places this into effect, and create the challenges that would pop up in the wake of said decision. There is no question where the challenges rest at this point, the states have done their part, the Feds are where things are held up.
At this point there are no longer any challenges or problems, there is a simple conflict:
While the states themselves are compliant with the RealID Act, a large number of individual people in the US are not compliant, since a number of states will still issue non-compliant IDs if the individual so chooses.
The only way to force all people in the US to be RealID compliant is to mandate the at the states cease issuing non-compliant IDs. Since the feds won't mandate that, there will remain a significant fraction of the traveling public who choose to get non-compliant IDs for some time, which will cause utter chaos if RealID compliant IDs are made mandatory for boarding a plane.