Sheriffs: Feds can't take away Utahns' 2nd Amendment rights

[jberryhill]

45. There's RW crap and there's RW crap

As an avid fan of nutjob legal theories, the "Constitutional Sheriff" stuff is well out of "rightwing crap" territory and more on the "batshit insane" end of things.

It is in the same constellation as "Sovereign Citizen" nonsense.

The "Constitutional Sheriff" folks were the ones who held the various "citizen grand juries" which then presented "indictments" to their respective sheriff's offices in order to have President Obama brought to trial on various birther charges.

It this species of legal moonbattery which led to the interesting tale of Darren Huff and his compadres...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/the_strange_case_of_the_ga_birther_oathkeeper_--_w.php

On Tuesday, Georgia OathKeeper Darren Huff will begin his trial for an alleged attempt to take over a Tennessee courthouse and conduct citizens arrests on local judges and officers.

Huff’s troubles began in April 2010, when Walter Francis Fitzpatrick was arrested in Madisonville, Tennessee for attempting to conduct a citizens’ arrest on Monroe County Grand Jury Foreman Gary Pettway. “I’m charging you with official misconduct,” Fitzpatrick told Pettway. “I’m placing you under arrest. You must now come with me.” Fitzpatrick was charged with inciting a riot, disrupting an official public meeting, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Beforehand, Fitzpatrick, who is a leader of the birther and Patriot group American Grand Jury, had written up 24 citizens’ arrest warrants for officials at the federal, state and local levels, calling them “domestic enemies” and describing President Obama as an “illegal alien, infiltrator and impostor.” His grievance with Pettway, it seems, was that Pettway would not agree to convene a grand jury to investigate the AGC’s belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen.