Accountability shouldn’t depend on who you know or how you vote.

Americans live by the promise that their institutions and leaders are impartial arbiters of the law and defenders of citizens’ rights, no matter their background or political affiliation. However, anyone paying attention in recent years must have noticed the disparate treatment afforded certain individuals as compared to others.

A journalist explores the boundaries between participation and coverage. A public health official privately acknowledged and publicly ignored inconvenient COVID-19 data. The head of a major teachers’ union pits public educators against federal law enforcement doing its job in her state. There are blatant double standards for the prominent people, and they only serve to further erode Americans’ weakening faith in their institutions and amplify political tensions in an already polarized country.

Norms took a big hit over the last half-decade.

My group, Protect The Public’s Trust, exposed former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci having acknowledged in private emails that natural immunity was more effective than vaccine-based immunity for the COVID-19 virus. In these emails........

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