Commerce clause, people. The only flights the TSA would have no right to regulate under these laws would be intrastate flights, which would be a sizable enough market in Alaska, but nowhere else.
Plus the interpretation would run that any airport that offers interstate flights would be subject to the process
Although the whole "strip search" thing feels like people are deliberately blowing it out of proportion to me. People who force themselves into strip-search mode are already looking for trouble (similar to protestors who deliberately provoke police to later claim police brutality), because the machines are perfectly quick, viable, and with the added bonus of not having some stranger touch you (only having them look at the CG contours of your body, so no more embarrassing than if you were wearing a bodysuit)
Although this isn't to say that i feel the TSA method is optimally effective. Real anti-terror action comes from intelligence and the fieldwork of agents. The underwear bomber from 2009 was under suspicion by the federal authorities, they simply should have been more vigilant about denying him a visa.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
