SamuelRSmith said:
Mr Khan said:
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. |
The Commerce clause does not give the Federal Government the power to override other parts of the constitution.
The commerce clause is completely misinterpreted, anyway. It's clearly obvious, when taken into context of the rest of the constitution, that "regulate" meant to "keep regular" rather than "do whatever the fuck you want".
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You're right, however that's how it's interpreted by a huge swath of the body politic for a long time now. How I long to see some Santorum type use it to outlaw abortion on the grounds that we can't have people terminating future consumers and taxpayers willy nilly, just to see if the penny would finally drop that, derp, giving the federal government this kind of insane power is maybe not such a good thing.
