I believe the MSM is trampling on the Constitution here because Todd Palin had an absolute Constitutional Right to file a complaint, greivance or petition, whatever you wish to call it, against the trooper.

Todd Palin does not lose his Constitutional rights because:

• his wife is governor
• his relatives or in-laws are involved
• because Sarah Palin should have "controlled" her husband's involvement.

In other words, he was totally within his Constitutional rights to try to get the trooper fired, if he thought the trooper was a threat to his sister-in-law or to the general public.

In fact, Govenor Sarah Palin could have filed a complaint againt the trooper as "citizen" Sarah Palin in the ordinary manner of filing complaints, because her Constitutional rights do not stop just because she is governor.

The real kicker is how the MSM attacks Todd Palin. I mean to attack him for trying to protect his sister-in-law, a woman, is kind of like saying "hurting and threatening women is OK".

OK, but was it just over a bitter divorce? Were the Palin's carrying out some sort of revenge? Of course that is a possibility. But what makes this highly unlikely are the facts in the case:

• the trooper does have a record of abusive behavior, the Palin's do not
• the trooper did appear to provide some veiled threats, per news reports
• there was ample evidence the trooper's boss was fired for an entirely different reason, and only coincidence to this other stuff.

So from where I sit it seems that the only wrong done here were attempts by the MSM to trample on Todd Palin's Constitutional right to file a complaint by their "abusive" reporting.