Fear And Sheriffs In Las Vegas feat. David Gilbert (E276)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

So-called “Constitutional Sheriffs” fancy themselves as the real life version of Judge Dredd: the ultimate arbiters of the law according to their interpretation of the Constitution. Recently the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) held a conference in Las Vegas. Among the speakers were regular features of the podcast disgraced former General Michael Flynn, convicted former County Clerk Tina Peters, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. Our guest WIRED reporter David Gilbert attended the conference, and he told us all about what he saw at this gathering of conspiracists and pseudolaw enthusiasts. REFERENCES WIRED: Far-Right Sheriffs Want a Citizen Army to Stop ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Voters https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-deniers-immigrants-voting/ WIRED: No, a Shadowy Figure Is Not Buying Tents for Columbia Student Protesters https://www.wired.com/story/conspiracy-tents-student-protests-gaza/ David Gilbert on Twitter https://twitter.com/daithaigilbert NBC News: A sheriff, a felon and a conspiracy theorist walk into a hotel. They're there for the same conference. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/constitutional-sheriffs-las-vegas-conference-rcna147487 MassLive: Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson calls cancellation of ICE contract a ‘politically motivated attack’ https://www.masslive.com/politics/2021/06/bristol-county-sheriff-thomas-hodgson-calls-cancellation-of-ice-contract-a-politically-motivated-attack.html Politico: The Troubling Sheriffs’ Movement That Joe Arpaio Supports https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/01/joe-arpaio-pardon-sheriffs-movement-215566/ American Oversight: The Constitutional Sheriffs Movement and Its Threat to Democracy https://www.americanoversight.org/investigation/the-constitutional-sheriffs-movement-and-its-threat-to-democracy NBC News: Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to home detention and community service in obstruction case https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-colorado-county-clerk-tina-peters-sentenced-home-detention-comm-rcna79085 CBS News: Mike Lindell's MyPillow evicted from Minnesota warehouse after lawsuit claimed it was $200K behind on rent https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/lawsuit-mypillow-eviction-mike-lindell-minnesota/

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0:00.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you found a way to connect to the internet.
0:27.0	If you're hearing this, well done. You found a way to connect to the internet.
0:35.0	Welcome to the QAA podcast episode 276 Fear and Sheriffs in Las Vegas featuring David
0:42.2	Gilbert. As always we're your host Jake Rakatanski and delusions of having even more power and conspiracy theories.
0:53.7	You get the constitutional sheriffs.
0:56.2	Constitutional sheriffs are a group of law enforcement officials who believe that the county sheriff
1:01.9	has the ultimate authority to interpret
1:04.0	and force the Constitution, often placing this local interpretation
1:08.1	above federal or state laws. They assert that their duty includes protecting
1:12.1	citizens from what they perceive as
1:13.7	unconstitutional federal mandates and other laws.
1:17.2	This concept is promoted by groups like the Constitutional Sheriff's and Peace Officers Association or the CSPOA, founded by former
1:25.3	Sheriff Richard Mack.
1:27.3	Proponents of this movement argue that the sheriff as an elected official directly
1:30.3	answerable to the local populace as a sovereign duty to act as a check on other government layers.
1:36.0	Critics, however, see the movement as a potential threat to the rule of law,
1:40.0	arguing that it could lead to a selective enforcement of laws based on individual
1:44.0	sheriff's interpretation of the Constitution.
1:46.4	This, they warn, might undermine established legal precedents and disrupt the uniform
1:51.1	application of justice across different jurisdictions. the
1:55.0	CSPOA claims on its website that, quote,
1:58.0	the Constitution makes it clear that the power of the sheriff even supersedes the powers of the president, a theory that legal
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