Militias with Badges

[Nevilledog]

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Amanda Carpenter
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Claremont is recruiting insurrection-friendly sheriffs. What could go wrong?

Militias with Badges
Here come the sheriffs of MAGA-town
morningshots.thebulwark.com
6:51 AM · Oct 19, 2021

https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/militias-with-badges


Yes, it could get worse.

The Claremont Institute — the home of John Eastman, author of the blueprint for overthrowing the presidential election — has a new initiative for undermining the rule of law.

And if you are not alarmed, you ought to be.

The Trumpian institute is launching a program to weaponize "patriotic law enforcement officers" to counter "the perversion of the justice system by which the revolutionary left seeks to advance its totalitarian agenda."

In announcing its new "Sheriff’s Fellowship" the institute tied together last year’s urban disorders, Covid-19 lockdowns, and “the electoral disaster of 2020,” and declared that “our nation's conservative movement needs a countervailing network of uncorrupted law enforcement officials.”

Specifically, Claremont envisions a cadre of sheriffs “not beholden to bureaucratic masters, and whose geographic boundaries, jurisdictional latitude, and - most important - direct connection and responsibility to citizens, places them on the frontlines of the defense of civilization.”

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. I have never understood the legal basis for this constitutional sheriff concept

The RWNJs like this concept but there is no basis for this concept in the law.

[Bayard]

2. Once again

Inciting insurrection. This crap should not be getting a pass, from, "Institutes", to TFG. It's not free speech, and there are laws against it.