special privilege
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About 40% of lawmakers — nearly equally divided between Democrats and Republicans — surveyed said they didn’t intend to assert a special privilege to withhold their emails and other records, without equivocating.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024
General Services Administration, the court reaffirmed and broadened the original Nixon rationale for recognizing a president’s special privilege to block access to hard information about official decision-making:
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2022
"No other industry enjoys that amount of special privilege."
From Salon • Oct. 29, 2021
“I consider my work enforcing and upholding the rule of law as a Department of Justice attorney to be a special privilege and a solemn responsibility.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2017
Being granted a communicuff is a special privilege that’s reserved for those important to the cause, a status Gale achieved by his rescue of the citizens of 12.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
