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Aside from the blatantly obvious issue of equal protection of the law, if the people who would have to pass a broader law are already protected by one that is n
by stormbrew 6y ago
Aside from the blatantly obvious issue of equal protection of the law, if the people who would have to pass a broader law are already protected by one that is narrowly focused on them, they're less incentivized to pass the broader law. Letting the narrow law pass creates a barrier to passing the broader law.
- dsfyu404ed 6y agoIt goes even further than that. If the politicians are protected by their own special law they are much more likely to write laws that violate the privacy and rights of everyone else because they do not feel threatened by it.