Rise of the 'constitutional sheriffs'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Where the authors run into trouble is trying to untangle fairly mundane opinions on limited government and the Second Amendment from the noxious, conspiratorial strands of the fringe.
62% : Sheriffs' increasingly common embrace of bogus election fraud claims, anti-immigrant hysteria, and culture war vigilantism does represent a real threat to regular political order.
53% : Two new books -- The Highest Law in the Land, by reporter Jessica Pishko, and The Power of the Badge, by political scientists Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman -- argue that such behavior isn't unusual.
50% : Just as there are conservative "sanctuary counties" for Second Amendment rights, there are liberal sanctuaries from federal immigration enforcement.
29% : Each book focuses heavily on the "constitutional sheriffs" movement -- an effort to recruit sheriffs to nullify laws they consider unconstitutional, such as gun controls and COVID-19 restrictions.

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