[Carry_Okie]

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Note that the Fourteenth Amendment does not prohibit CONGRESS from ignoring the equal protection clause.

[esoxmagnum]

Congress is a district, and is therefore exempt from federal laws. I am not condoning this, but this has been the argument from early on.

This is why they can smoke in a federal building, but you or I cannot.