Originally Posted by Tartan Army

How is my suggestion any more invasive to the Constitution than the FAA mandated random drug and alcohol screenings? Wouldn't you classify those as unreasonable under the 4th Amendment? But the courts have ruled that they are legal and applied correctly, so I don't really see how extrapolating the random checks to mandatory screenings is any worse.

We already have to go through security checkpoints, which one could argue is an illegal search and seizure under the Constitution, what's adding one more element to that initial security screening?

I'm all for it. If it saves one plane from crashing, or one ramper from getting in an accident and dying, then to me it was well worth it.