Originally Posted by
sbm12
My understanding of the TSA's ability to implement such a policy is based on not a ton of knowledge, but on the previously revealed comment that the TSA has the ability to require ID based on existing legislation should they so choose.
This is the 'secret' law that was at the center of the Gillmore case. In fact (AIUI) there is no specific law pertaining to the TSA and IDs, it's being implemented under the "adminstrator may introduce any measures..." catch-all referred to earlier in this thread.
Any measures ?
That piece of legislation is yet another example of the hasty manner in which the TSA was hatched (spawned is perhaps better), without the ramifications having been thought through. It doesn't specify, hopefully because it's blatantly obvious, that these "measures" can not violate the Constitution. We won't know the answer to that until someone challenges it, and maybe not even then if the courts buckle under to the WOT. Again.