What about immunity for normal arrest when on Senate business.
This is being vindictive toward outspoken Senators. Obozo would do that.....
And he has demonstrated his contempt for the Chains of the Constitution.
He thinks he was elected King, and he is not even a Burger King.
I recently saw (on an FR thread) a pic of Zero picking his nose so he is more like the Booger King, don’t you think?
disgusting!!!
Gestapo tactics already.
On another thread about this, a poster wrote that Rand Paul typically "dresses down" when traveling, so that he isn't as recognizable. I'm curious if he even identified himself as a US Senator, and if anyone at the TSA checkpoint was knowledgeable enough to recognize him or even his name.
Even the TSA is smart enough to realize the political fallout from harassing a US Senator. They got a huge black eye back in 2004 because Ted Kennedy was stopped repeatedly because he had a name similar to "T. Kennedy" on the secret "no-fly" list. I believe it eventually led to the "redress number" system where you can get certification that you aren't the person on the no-fly list, even though you have the same name.
BTW, there is a similar law in Texas. Every legislative session, the Texas Dept. of Public Safety issued a "blue card" to every Texas legislator. It identified them as someone that the DPS should not detain. I don't know if other law enforcement agencies honored it.
However, I don't think the DPS issues it any longer. There were some abuses of the card years ago, and I think a legislator that was DWI went on to be involved in a serious accident after the DPS didn't detain him. But, I may be misremembering it....
Immunity from arrest applies to travel to and from meetings of Congress, which is not the situation here.
The TSA was out of line, but not for that reason.