[Carry_Okie]

The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtrak’s police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads — VIPR teams for short — assigned to perform random security sweeps to prevent terrorist attacks at transportation hubs across the United States.

TSA exists because the bulk of air transportation is interstate.

“The T.S.A., huh,” said Donald Neubauer of Greenville, Ohio, as he walked past the squad. “I thought they were just at the airports.”

The moron ought to realize that TSA policing intrastate transportation is blatantly unconstitutional.

[OneWingedShark]

The moron ought to realize that TSA policing intrastate transportation is blatantly unconstitutional.

Wickard v. Fillburn has, since 1942, declared that the intrastate commerce impacts interstate commerce and thereby allows Congressional regulation thereof.