Maine is the only state not to have asked for an extension in complying with the REAL ID Act, which sets minimum federal standards for state driver’s licenses — standards like checking legal status before giving someone a license, and making licenses for temporary visa holders expire when their permission to be here expires. Unless Maine complies by the close of business Wednesday, its licenses will no longer be accepted for boarding airplanes, starting next month. (Here’s the DHS press release, and a Wired article.) It looks like Maine may blink, but if not, Mainers can thank their legislators for considering it more important to keep giving IDs to illegal aliens than ensure their own citizens’ ease of travel.