Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 14, 2009

Although Mark Twain famously described Congress as America?s only ?native criminal class,? even he might have been amazed by the lawlessness recently displayed by Maryland?s state legislature.

On March 24, that body enacted, by a vote of 135-3, a measure exempting its members from all civil and criminal judicial proceedings during the 105 days each year that the legislature is in session.

Baltimore political commentator Al Ritter points out that ?77 members of the state legislature are involved in some sort of legal actions, including DUI?s, possession of child pornography, [or] failure to submit campaign finance reports on time?; the co-sponsor of the bill reportedly faces a civil action for alleged participation in an illegal foreclosure scheme.

Members of the political class constantly devise ways to exempt themselves from laws and regulations they impose on the rest of us. But rarely is their contempt for the law displayed so brazenly.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.