A right-wing sheriffs group that challenges federal law is gaining acceptance

[orangecrush]

A right-wing sheriffs group that challenges federal law is gaining acceptance around the country

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A right-wing sheriffs group that challenges federal law is gaining acceptance around the country
BY TJ L’HEUREUX, ADRIENNE WASHINGTON, ALBERT SERNA JR., ANISA SHABIR, ISAAC STONE SIMONELLI, THE HOWARD CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM AND ARIZONA CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Updated 1:14 PM EDT, August 21, 2023
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Against the background hum of the convention center, Dar Leaf settled into a club chair to explain the sacred mission of America’s sheriffs, his bright blue eyes and warm smile belying the intensity of the cause.

“The sheriff is supposed to be protecting the public from evil,” the chief law enforcement officer for Barry County, Michigan, said during a break in the National Sheriffs’ Association 2023 conference in June. “When your government is evil or out of line, that’s what the sheriff is there for, protecting them from that.”

Leaf is on the advisory board of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, founded in 2011 by former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack. The group, known as CSPOA, teaches that elected sheriffs must “protect their citizens from the overreach of an out-of-control federal government” by refusing to enforce any law they deem unconstitutional or “unjust.”

“The safest way to actually achieve that is to have local law enforcement understand that they have no obligation to enforce such laws,” Mack said in an interview. “They’re not laws at all anyway. If they’re unjust laws, they are laws of tyranny.”


https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-tensions-suez-rajan-tanker-oil-3f257407678b844e5c71c39334866bb1

Gaining acceptance around the country?!?

Where?

The article cites nothing to back this up.

I call bullshit, and any cop who signs on to this shit needs to be fired and or subjected to FBI investigation.

[TheRealNorth]

1. Since Republicans have decided it is now legal for States to remove local government officials

Maybe we should start removing these treasonous local sheriff's or removing their state funding.

[orangecrush]

2. Great point

[NutmegYankee]

3. Thankfully, not a problem in Connecticut.

The 1960 Constitution completely abolished sheriffs as a thing. They simply do not exist in the state.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Guess we will have to pass a law saying people have to follow the law.

Especially sheriffs.

[orangecrush]

8. I'm wondering

If this is a real AP article.

There is a way of checking the address in the link to verify, but I don't know how to do it.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Good question.

Is this just more Putin GOP propaganda?

Maybe someone here knows how to do it.

[spanone]

5. As Barney Fife said, 'Nip it in the bud"

Fuck these nazis

[jmowreader]

6. So what he's saying...

...is that if a Democratic sheriff decided the abortion laws, the marijuana laws, the trans athlete laws, or some other laws the Republicans like are "unconstitutional or unjust" he could just say "screw you guys, I'm not enforcing this shit" and the CSPOA would be all hunky-dory with that.

[Red Mountain]

7. Absolutely not

He'd have to join their organization, pay his dues for the first year and THEN they would be all hunky-dory with that.

[TheRealNorth]

9. Not even then....

CSPOA is just a "legal" arm of the alt right.