Subject: Above the Law
Certainly not Hillary as her fine in this case shows...

The Federal Election Commission earlier this month fined Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee for failing to properly report funding on opposition research into the 2017 Steele dossier, which examined former President Donald Trump's alleged links to Russia.

In a letter sent by the FEC to both parties on Tuesday, the agency said the Clinton campaign and the DNC improperly reported the money they spent funding the dossier, labeling the spending as "legal services", and "legal and compliance consulting" instead of opposition research.

Political candidates and groups are legally required to publicly disclose their spending to the FEC, which is responsible for enforcing campaign finance law in the US, and explain the purpose of any cost that exceeds $200.


No one is above the law, fair enough, but possibly more important is the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause.

Equal Protection is sometimes at odds with prosecutorial discretion.

When a high profile person is not prosecuted for appears to be an obvious crime, we rightly call out that offender as privileged, being "above the law".

Similarly if a prosecutor shows extraordinary vigor pursuing a case and overcharges a defendant, we say that defendant is being treated unusually harshly because he is "below the law".