New Cert Petition

On August 4, we filed the attached petition and appendix presenting the following question:

The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) uses a directive that it claims requires airline passengers, as a prerequisite to boarding a flight, to show identification or undergo further security screening. This directive affects millions of airline passengers each year. The government acknowledges not only the directive s existence, but also its purported contents. TSA nonetheless refuses to actually disclose the directive.

The Question Presented is:

May the government keep secret a directive that is generally applicable to millions of passengers every day notwithstanding that it (i) has acknowledged both the directive s existence and
its contents, and moreover (ii) has identified no special circumstance that nonetheless justifies secrecy.

Tom is the counsel of record, with Thomas Burke and Rochelle Wilcox of Davis Wright Tremaine and James Harrison of the Law Offices of James P. Harrison also on the petition.