Never underestimate the power of a horde of loud old people yelling through your office door.

That's why we don't pay them hardly anything and only let them meet once every other year in Texas. Of course, that might also be why we recovered faster from the crash in Texas -- they weren't around to make things worse.

Did we say evil? We mean Don't Get Caught.

You are right about the application, but completely wrong about the terms, especially in the Constitutional sense.

Legally, there is no difference between arrest and detention.

Being required to have a law enforcement escort while transiting a secured area is not arrest.

Yes. It is, by definition. If you weren't under arrest, you could move through it freely. The very word "arrest" means to stop or prevent. Under United States v. Mendenhall, 446 U.S. 544, you are under arrest anytime the police use force on you. Since he was escorted, they were using force. In addition, they were using force to prevent him from travelling to DC. Therefore, they were arresting him on the way to a session of the Senate. The end.

It's not a hard concept. The founders didn't pull this provision out of thin air because it sounded cool. It was to prevent something that had actually happened. The King in England would sometimes send his men to arrest MPs on their way to Parliament before a vote if they weren't voting his way. They would hold the MPs just long enough to keep them from voting, and then release them. This was intended to prevent that. Here, we clearly have the executive branch (the King's Men) holding a Senator (MP) on his way to the Senate (Parliament.) This one is not going to be hard for the SCOTUS to decide. The only thing that will be hard for them to explain is how there isn't a right to free travel rolled up into the airline industry.

Guess who is on the Committee for Homeland Security.

If he was escorted out, then he was legally arrested. You don't have to have the magic words "you are under arrest" said or be booked. Whenever you are dealing with the authorities and you are not free to leave, you are arrested. (For example, every traffic stop resulting in a ticket is an arrest.)

Survivalist / off-grid / sustainable.

Actually the article mentions it -- a lot of it is the prepper community getting geared up for a grid-down situation.