Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
And no law requires them to admit you to the sterile area of the airport if you refuse to answer them, either. (At least, this hasn't been tested in court.)
Originally Posted by
studentff
Point to a law that even suggests TSA can deny admission for that.
I'm not a lawyer, and I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night, so I won't even pretend to be able to site a relevant law.
However ... my completely uninformed speculation suggests that the law is silent on the issue. And as you and I have already demonstrated, we can read that silence in two different ways. There's no law requiring TSA to admit you if you don't answer, but there's no law requiring TSA to deny you admission, either. Which is why it would be interesting to see this adjudicated --- and (as has been pointed out upstream) why we'll probably never see it adjudicated, as TSA will find a way to settle out-of-court before that happens.