Federal Court Rules That TSA 'Naked Scans' Are Constitutional

Federal Court Rules That TSA ‘Naked Scans’ Are Constitutional

Jul. 15 2011 - 12:13 pm

An image of Susan Hallowell, Director of the T...

Last weekend, a Tennessee woman was arrested at the Nashville airport for disorderly conduct after she refused TSA security measures for her children. The woman didn’t want her two children to have to go through a whole-body-imaging scanner. When a Transportation Security Administration officer told her the machines were safe, she said,  “I still don’t want someone to see our bodies naked.”

 

She won’t be pleased with a ruling then out of the D.C. Circuit today. This morning, the federal court ruled that the “naked scans” of air travelers do not violate Americans’ constitutional rights. Privacy rights group EPIC had sued the Department of Homeland Security, alleging violations of innocent passengers’ Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable searches. The court says that argument doesn’t fly.

 

 In the opinion [pdf] from the D.C. Circuit Court (the Volokh Conspiracy), Judge Douglas Ginsburg writes that the advance imaging technology is not unreasonable given the security concerns on airplanes, and that people have the option to opt out for a pleasurable patdown. The court notes that some “have complained that the resulting patdown was unnecessarily aggressive,” but the judges don’t seem overly concerned about that. Ginsburg writes:

 

On the other side of the balance, we must acknowledge the steps the TSA has already taken to protect passenger privacy, in particular distorting the image created using AIT and deleting it as soon as the passenger has been cleared. More telling, any passenger may opt-out of AIT screening in favor of a patdown, which allows him to decide which of the two options for detecting a concealed, nonmetallic weapon or explosive is least invasive.

Good news for body scanner manufacturers Rapiscan and L-3. Bad news for those who don’t like having to choose between digital nudity and frisking. Legal scholar Orin Kerr of the Volokh Conspiracy expresses mild surprise at how easily the court dismissed privacy concerns with the TSA screens, as he regards the court as a Fourth-Amendment-friendly one.

 

There was a small rebuke in the opinion for the TSA. The judges ruled that the TSA had violated an administrative law requiring public comment before issuing a new rule making the body scanners their primary tool for airport security. It would be too disruptive to have the TSA stop using the scanners, writes Judge Ginsburg, but they do expect that the TSA will now take comments. In this case, “better late than never” doesn’t really mean much.

 

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Comment by jerry fleming on October 12, 2011 at 1:20pm
agenda 21 tells us all what these fuckers want to do wit us and its not nice
Comment by Michael Sterling on July 17, 2011 at 4:59pm
Conditioning for the New World Order.  Those who ruled on this crap, are traitors to this country.
Comment by Andy Anduer on July 17, 2011 at 10:59am

 makes me wonder sometimes if Hitler is still alive.  I had heard the the British Royalty really like Hitlers ideas and plans.

Comment by Unemployed Storm trooper TK420 on July 17, 2011 at 5:37am

We look so much like Germany in 1932....I imagine that by 2019 we will

be the ones making World War 3 against the world happen...and sadly we will the bad guys too !

So sad to see this beautiful and proud nation turning in to what is becoming ! 

May God have mercy of us ...because Our Government will not !

Comment by TheLasersShadow on July 16, 2011 at 11:43am

Again the constitution is null and void at this point in their eyes. The only real law anymore is made by a man with a gun whether it's our side or theirs. If a man with a gun says its the law... thats just how it is. Americans are so pathetic anymore, just a bunch of domesticated cattle.

 

9 fools in black dresses deciding what is and is not legal lol who the hell come up with this shit?

Comment by Andy Anduer on July 16, 2011 at 11:27am
The judge that ruled in the case was Ginsberg,The whole family have been in the courts for years. Ruth Bader Ginsberg/ Carl Ginsberg. Just Google their trial records and you'll see they are against the constitution. Once in a while they rule somethings constitutional but they are socialist against the TRUE American way.
Comment by WTRH-AM-AE on July 15, 2011 at 9:23pm

They are not constitutional. We did not have this garbage in our airports before 9/11 and people were doing just fine.  People were able to fly all over the place and the airline hosteses were very nice and respectful.   People went out on vacation more than they did back before 9/11 and went all over the world.  Body Scanning is part the of Police State, and they want to put them anywhere people come and go.

 

Comment by Glenn Gordon on July 15, 2011 at 1:59pm
It is NOT a matter of whether or not it is constitutional. It is a matter of human rights. Although, it is a violation of the US constitution, that is a matter for the US. However, since it is a violation of humanity, that is a matter between man and God.
Comment by Daniel Seigler on July 15, 2011 at 1:39pm
again, the wrong 'cause of action' is used.  the problem is not 'unwarranted search and seizure' so much as 'where in the Constitution does the federation governing body have the authority to perform ANY preventive measure on the people?'
Comment by Jose Villarreal on July 15, 2011 at 1:09pm
So now we now have the best court system money can buy and lady liberty no longer has the cloth over her eyes. One step closer to one world government. Welcome to Amerika.

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