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

What a special, special privilege to have been able to count Walter as one of my dearest and most beloved friends.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 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

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