Sounds great for right now, but this is just going to be appealed one step further and the Supreme Court is probably just going to let them overstep powers due to the fact that they're 'securing the nation' even though they're just a glorified jobs program for people who live near the airport, and routinely fail tests regarding bombs getting passed them.
It might certainly happen as you say. But there is one difference, which is...
People are gradually waking up to the fact that government is erasing freedom. And in the States, freedom of the courts is available for anybody to sue anybody. This means that people can sue TSA people rather than their TSA position... with results that are different than when people sue government positions and offices. It is happening more and more all the time in all kinds of places besides the TSA.
The more that government takes freedom away from the people, the more people are going to find out that they have the right to sue even Supreme Court Judges, personally, without suing their Supreme Court governmental office.
Yeah, you can sue those on the Supreme Court. But why'? What would that do for you?
PLUS, you're going to have to show that something they've done, outside of the purview of their office. As they are going to get immunity from cases they've decided on, but not on their personal life. So yeah, take this example from online
There are some stupid examples where a suit like that could survive. For example, if all nine justices (cough cough, or eight justices… this answer was written in late 2016) decided to rent a houseboat, then they absolutely trashed the houseboat in an alcohol-fueled spring break style rager, the houseboat owner could sue the nine justices for the damage.
But that’s a lawsuit against the justices in their personal capacity. Supreme Court justices — or any government official, for that matter — do not get immunity from personal liability.
But that’s a lawsuit against the justices in their personal capacity. Supreme Court justices — or any government official, for that matter — do not get immunity from personal liability.
Have you ever heard of the Nuremberg trials? That's the trials of various German military commanders of WW2 who acted under orders. Just because they acted under orders didn't save them from execution for harming people. And that is the point with regard to anyone in government.
The common law is like the Nuremberg trials built right into the USA government. Let the US government people make any and every law they can think of. But if anybody is hurt because of one of those laws, he has right to sue the man who acted as the government official for repayment, even to the point of execution if the man government official won't change his ways.
We are guaranteed the right to be secure in our homes, papers and even our happiness.And it is government's duty to see that this is done. If my happiness is threatened by something a government official did, and I can show that his law that he made did it, I might have legal claims for a suit. But if I bring my claims Nuremberg style - man-to-man - he is open to repayment or execution.
You can find the execution law in this talk by David Myrland - https://www.talkshoe.com/episode/6074645. But you are going to have to listen for almost an hour to ferret it out.
EDIT: Oh, btw. What it would do for you is to get you some money from the suit. Of course, if you don't want money, and they don't have anything else you want, opt for money and donate it to your favorite charity.
