Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,”
In other words, I should be free to travel within the borders of the United States without being groped by government goons. Air travel is a normal mode of travel and therefore should not an exception to my right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
Keep in mind that these same Feds (different department but same government) feel it IS unreasonable search and seizure to ask for an Illegal Immigrant to prove their eligibility to be within the same borders.
That alone proves that this government is not using the TSA to ensure safety, instead it is to ensure compliance. I don’t know the Rand Paul situation specifically, but I will not default to the gov has a right to grope the citizenry.
(Oh, and I am no RuPaul supporter either...)
The Fourth Amendment has been repeatedly found to not apply when you’re travelling. You have a lessened privacy interest in your car, flying, etc., than you do when you are in your house, as the current course of jurisprudence stands.