Sam Houston.
Posted on 05/25/2011 10:23:19 AM PDT by Roninf5-1
The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to House and Texas Senate leaders Tuesday -- reportedly in person -- threatening a shut-down of airports if HB 1937 is passed.
The letter claims Rep. David Simpson's (R-Longview) anti-TSA-groping bill is against federal law and the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. We include the text of the DOJ's letter, as well as a portion of Simpson's reply, below.
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Cite, the word you wanted was CITE.
This is basically nullification, so Texas doesn’t have a constitutional leg to stand on. That being said, the GOP Congress should make this a priority.
OK, so pass a bill to require TX airports to opt-out of TSA and replace TSA with private contractors.
TSA bkmk
We don't do that anymore or what?
Not that I'd advocate that but knowledgeable lawyers in the Texas legislature KNEW there was no way to legally reach the TSA agents with state law. What is their next proposal?
Frankly, I'd try "investigative bureau" and "civil suits against individuals". You go prying into a TSA agent's personal life separate and apart from his job you will certainly find SOME with enough cr*p hanging on them to embarrass even Napolitano.
Civil suits could tie up enough DOJ lawyers to make it remarkably expensive for Eric Holder and his queer girlfriend to continue this act.
We don't do that anymore or what?
Not that I'd advocate that but knowledgeable lawyers in the Texas legislature KNEW there was no way to legally reach the TSA agents with state law. What is their next proposal?
Frankly, I'd try "investigative bureau" and "civil suits against individuals". You go prying into a TSA agent's personal life separate and apart from his job you will certainly find SOME with enough cr*p hanging on them to embarrass even Napolitano.
Civil suits could tie up enough DOJ lawyers to make it remarkably expensive for Eric Holder and his queer girlfriend to continue this act.
Yes, just like Sam Huston and Jim Bowie. Send them out to shoot Mexican soldiers!
Nothing more important than that.
Everything else flows from that consideration.
Sampson was just on Alec Jones. He said he withdrew the bill reluctantly but if the public gets involved they might be able to pass it anyway.
Just my personal opinion but I have believed for some time that the DHS and TSA are the most dangerous agencies ever created in this country. Very quickly the TSA has been morphed into an internal security force just like Oblahblah promised. What we are looking at is the American version of the SS. They are going to block our ability to move freely within our own country.
Congress will do nothing about this. The states need to step up and band together to fight this TSA insanity. Otherwise they will continue to squeeze our rights until there is a general uprising/rebellion/revolution which will be a bloody mess that nobody wants to think about.
I’d be callin’ the bluff, shut the dam air traffic down!
Oh no he di'int! Oh yes he deeeuhd!
if the feds want to try and isolate texas, then texas should isolate the fed. turnabout is fair play
no fed taxes from the people of the state
i’d be for florida joining with texas. or i’d just move there
The federal judiciary, not the Texas state legislature, is the body that has constitutional authority to pronounce on the constitutionality of federal law. And there really is no 4A issue, since no one is legally obligated to fly anywhere if they don’t want to deal with the TSA.
Defund the TSA, Congress. Repeal the Patriot Act. Haven’t y’all heard, ? Obama eliminated the reason for WOT.
That’s the downside of the National Security state with it’s creeping erasure of liberty- once it’s gone, it ain’t never coming back.
Shut it down until the airlines and citizens demand that the gov’t straighten itself out and send Nappy packing.
Sam Houston.
Funny, I didn’t know the US Congress, in creating the TSA, authorized strip searches and frisks of innocent Americans. I doubt the Congress knew they were doing that. Or, perhaps, these new types of TSA searches may just be policy enacted by Obama’s minions.
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