As we say, not as we do.
Via Komo News:
SEATTLE – Telling a police officer that you were speeding because you are running late for work will likely not let you get out of a ticket. But if you’re a state representative trying to get to work during the legislative session, the officer will have to let you go.
It all comes down to language in the State Constitution that’s a throwback to centuries ago, when politicians in England would try to arrest opponents to prevent them from voting in parliament.
Washington’s earliest lawmakers didn’t want that happening to them, so it was written into the State Constitution and remains today.