Our royalty has immunity

In the Ace of Spades blog, coblogger CBD writes in part,

Elected officials are the new royalty, and are immune to the very rules that they create to control the commoners. It's too bad that the constitutional guarantee of a free press has been bastardized by the very people whose work it protects, otherwise some of those politicians might be held accountable for their actions. But they are defended and protected instead of being pilloried by a properly functioning 4th estate.

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