FAA Threatens to close control towers due to spending cuts

[PPC1052]

FAA crying wolf to save funding, or are they making a decision based on principle?

http://www.indystar.com/viewart/201.../Spending-cuts-close-6-Indiana-control-towers

 

[Jim Logajan]

It is not CBP who said that, it's title 8 and title 19 USC that say what they can inspect. Given that this has been litigated to the supreme court and found to be constitutional, yes they are following the constitution.

The problem with using the Supreme Court for validating constitutionality is that they have allegedly reversed themselves over 150 times between 1940 and 1992. [1]
And over 200 times since 1810. Since they were operating in most of those cases with the exact same constitutional clauses and issuing rulings that contradicted earler ones, ipso facto they fail to be a reliable rational standard.

With that track record it seems only fitting that they should finally rule themselves right out of the business of interpreting the constitution. They seem to have managed this self-swallowing feat by rulings that hand the executive branch the right to determine (because of national security concerns, you see) the exclusive right to decide when government actions are constitutional.

[1] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-1992/html/GPO-CONAN-1992-13.htm