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.
“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.”
Privacy is much different than unreasonable search and seizures. If a private citizen is not allowed to grope me when I am in public, then the government should be held to the same standards. If it is acceptable for a government goon to grope whomever they deem worthy of the groping, then I should be free to grope whomever I deem worthy of groping.
Privacy in your context is more related to evesdropping than it is to the actions of the TSA.
“The Fourth Amendment has been repeatedly found to not apply when youre travelling.”
What other enumerated rights do we lose when traveling? Do journalists lose their “free press” when they travel? Can I be tried repeatedly for the same crime if I am traveling? Do I lose the right to a trial by jury if I am traveling? If I am able to lose one of the enumerated rights while traveling, then we are able to lose them all. Is a free people a people that only retains rights when they are not traveling or can a free people freely travel?
Be very careful of the “living document” trap. They love to snare even conservative folks in those traps.