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special privilege



NOUN
grandfather clause
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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 one bought Tiley’s claim that Djokovic wasn’t being granted a special privilege.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022

"No other industry enjoys that amount of special privilege."

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2021

In the space of five weeks he had become an afterthought whose past performance earned no special privilege and seemed largely forgotten.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger


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