The Associated Press reports some bad news for former professional wrestler and maverick Minnesota Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura:
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in which he sought to challenge the use of full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints.
Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration in January alleging that the scans and pat-downs violated his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizure.
U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ruled Thursday that the court lacked jurisdiction.
Read the full story here.
There's no question Ventura did his best work in Predator, but it's still been disheartening to watch him descend from a libertarian-leaning populism into the conspiracy-driven ideology he inhabits today. Who knows, maybe with this lawsuit out of the way he'll be free to mull a 2012 run for the White House. That would be entertaining, to say the least.
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