A few more things. It is ruled law that TSA, customs, some drug, entry into government builgings and other searches are not unconstitutional.
From the Appeals Court:
"More than 700 million passengers board commercial aircraft in the United States each year.1 The Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”) is given the task of ensuring their safety, the safety of airline and airport personnel and, as the events of September 11, 2001, demonstrate, the safety of the general public from risks arising from commercial airplane flights.
To do so, the TSA conducts airport screening searches of all passengers entering the secured area of the airport.
We have previously held such airport screening searches are constitutionally reasonable administrative searches.
Today we clarify that the reasonableness of such searches does not depend, in whole or in part, upon the consent of the passenger being searched."
BTW, I would remind you that airport searches were not begun after 9/11 or for Arabs. They began in the 1960s when nice, White, preppy college boys were hijacking airplanes to Cuba to protest the war in Vietnam or extort money from the airlines!
Fondling our wives and sisters at airports is an affront to a supposedly free people.
This issue is low hanging fruit for the new House of Reps. The practice should be statutorily banned. “Profiling” should be the law of the land. Even if such a bill does not pass, it will force the rats to explain why little blue haired grannies get felt up when swarthy young men in turbans pass by.
BTW, the law it too important to be left entirely to lawyers. Having done so is part of the reason we are fast headed down the road to serfdom. The courts are losing respect at an accelerating rate. They deserve the loss.