General Discussion

They've always gotten pretty much whatever they wanted, legal or not. Laws are for the lowborn. Take a look at prisons, for example. About 92% of medium to maximum security prisons are people of color. 99% are poor. The myth of "democracy" is that everyone is equal and everyone has rights. No one is equal in our society, unless you say something Orwellian like "some people are more equal than others." Same holds true for any rights you think you have. Their guarantee is via pieces of paper, mostly written 250 years ago for a different world, and a bunch of folks in black robes. The former is subject to wide interpretation, the latter are increasingly Federalist Society lackeys appointed with bipartisan support.

It's important to remember that it's taken lots of time and too many lives to get to this rather miserable point. What's worse, it appears that this is as far as most of our elected politicians are willing to go.