Jessica Pishko

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she/her Book on sheriffs & democracy https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/ Repped by @rhaliterary DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com “Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”

Edwards, who owns several McDonald’s locations and also noted in his letter that he is a registered firearms dealer, walked back some of his praise for Mack in a written statement after the conference, telling The Assembly in a statement: “I know of the individual in question only through his successful Supreme Court case focused on Second Amendment rights.”
“Garments displaying unprofessional, political, indecent, extremist, racist, or offensive matter are not permitted,” the memo said. “Revealing clothing, including restrictively tight, see-through, short, torn, tattered and cutout clothing is not permitted.”
Ms. Mac Donald replied, “We are all just SO grateful if there is a black who does not overtly hate us.” She went on to rail against a libertarian podcast that praised former President George W. Bush for selecting Black people for his cabinet, “as if there is any talent required to make quota appointments.”
“Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? Today They Wear a Uniform.” *The cowboy spirit didn't disappear, it reported for duty.* -The cowboy lived by a code. They still do. -The cowboy sought purpose, not comfort. They still do. -The cowboy accepted hardship without recognition. They still do. -The cowboy went where civilization was fragile. They still do. -The cowboy loved freedom and accepted responsibility. They still do. -The frontier is where danger meets the innocent. They still go there. -Others look for safety. They provide it. -Challenge-seekers are still among us. Today, They wear a uniform. Yes, the cowboy is much more than a historical figure. The cowboy represents an enduring American ideal: courage, competence, loyalty, self-control, and the willingness to ride toward danger. Today, that spirit is still found... among those who put on a uniform. John Wayne said, “Courage is Being Scared to Death and Saddling Up Anyway.” I’m Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, and "That’s the Cowboy Way."
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You have the right to share information about any person’s citizenship or immigration status with federal immigration authorities, and no state or local government can stop you from doing so. Federal immigration law takes priority over any conflicting state or local laws or policies, including so-called “sanctuary” policies. It is a federal crime to obstruct federal immigration enforcement, and anyone who conspires to prevent federal officers from doing their jobs can face serious criminal penalties. It is a federal crime to conceal, harbor, or shield a person from detection by authorities if the person is unlawfully present in the United States. Officials who implement sanctuary policies may face both criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits under federal law.
Applicants must also have established and fully participate in a 287(g) partnership, or commit to entering into and fully participating in one. In addition, applicants must be fully participating in either HSTF operations or other major DOJ enforcement efforts, or commit to entering into and fully participating in those efforts.
But what the federal government has been doing to people assumed to be immigrants is different from normal police brutality. It is a targeted campaign. We are witnessing, for the first time since Jim Crow, American death squads.
But he had made one adjustment since his last visit, he said. “I went back to my office and I put in a rule that nobody in my office can request a three-digit sentence without my review and approval.” He gestured toward a San Quentin resident. “I see people like this gentleman and I think, ‘You know, he doesn’t have to die here.’”
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In 1996, then-president Bill Clinton signed into law the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), which was heavily influenced by the contemporary anti-immigrant movement.[Footnote39] The bill was primarily drafted by a lawyer for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), one of a constellation of anti-immigrant groups in a network created by John Tanton, a Michigan ophthalmologist and self-taught eugenicist who was inspired by the “zero population growth” movement and White nationalist ideas.[Footnote40] Tanton started FAIR and these other groups in the late 1970s and 1980s to seed politics, law, and culture with nativist ideas, in order to “make the restriction of immigration a legitimate position for thinking people,” as Stanton put it in a founding proposal.[Footnote41]
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Nate Silver Tweet from 2022 It's probably foolish to think a NYC mayor will successfully translate into being a national political figure, but I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for "who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?".
Killin is one of the 13 who signed on to the “Promise to America” initiative that commits candidates to a set of centrist principles, including capitalism, fiscal discipline, strong borders and pride in the United States.
Williams: Again, it is an incorrect framing to say that we (or any normal person, for that matter) watch movies to find an “exemplar” in a character for how to live, even if characteristics are shared. Viewing and discussing John Ford’s films is a long-held tradition at Claremont. They are chosen, first and foremost, for their artistic qualities and the stories that they tell so beautifully. Seeing the development and resolution of complex dilemmas and characters makes for good art and great leisure, especially in a heavy week of intellectual activity. Finally, anyone who watches The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and concludes that it is “about a corrupt law enforcement officer” should maybe stick to contemporary pulp instead of our greatest American director.
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But records obtained by The New York Times show that Lieutenant Santos had been repeatedly warned about logging excessive overtime hours, which had inflated his pay while creating what his supervisors described as a safety risk. Interviews with former colleagues suggest that he also harbored professional resentments that seemed to intensify in the final months of his life.
Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic ’m not a prison abolitionist but I have been pretty close. And I think much of it stems from the fact that American prisons are insanely torturous, much worse than those in, say, Scandinavia, and our sentences are much longer. Also people Darializa’s age (and mine) came up in an age of declining violent crime, but when prisons were still being packed full of people who committed far less serious crimes. The injustices were real. The egregious material conditions that often lead to crime - poverty, neglect - are real and particularly shameful in a rich nation. The reality of American prisons are so horrific and absurd I get how people were just like, “this is not moral or sane, it just all needs to go.” The problem of course is there was no real vision of what to create in its place, nor any recognition that serious violence has been a fixture of the human condition since forever, and actually we’ve become less interpersonally violent, but we do actually need a way to remove truly bad actors from society and to penalize truly bad actions.
The new secretary, Markwayne Mullin, who had privately expressed skepticism about the plan, has said publicly that he wants the agency to be quieter about how it carries out immigration enforcement. “From Day 1, D.H.S. has remained singularly focused on removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from the United States and is always evaluating the best methods to do so,” the Homeland Security Department said in a statement for this article. “These heinous criminals, once arrested, should be removed at lightning speed, not housed on American soil at the taxpayer’s expense. D.H.S. is moving swiftly to utilize EXISTING detention space with our state and county partners.”
Swank said he did not recognize the authority of the legislature to control sheriffs and told lawmakers that if they tried to remove him from office, his supporters would surround the sheriff's office building to protect him.
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In essence, these legalistic theories are based on a reading of the Constitution and select writings by the Founding Fathers that argue states are entitled to resist or nullify laws that contradict the Constitution. As opposed to a court order declaring a law unconstitutional, nullification and interposition refer to the act of refusing to follow the law in question.
While some of the sheriffs, including Mack, use interposition to justify resistance to gun laws, not desegregation, he is wrong to say that the doctrine has ever been anything but deeply racist. Despite some writers and scholars who might claim that left- wing resistance, like the nonenforcement of marijuana laws, which mostly rely on noncooperation, constitutes something like interposition, there is just no evidence this is so. It’s important to bear this in mind throughout the book because the false claims that interposition and nullification are grounded in history and are race- neutral— like the office of sheriff itself— are a main reason why the constitutional sheriff movement has been so successful. Constitutional sheriffs argue that they are resisting tyranny and restoring the original purpose of the Constitution when they interpose; they do not see what they do as rebellion. To the contrary, they see their purpose as respectable and within the bounds of ordinary governance.
While Calhoun’s method did not carry the day, it did force the federal government to compromise, which he considered enough encouragement to continue to press the idea of nullification as a form of “concurrent government” to protect the “different interests, orders, classes, or portions, into which the community may be divided.” In other words, nullification remained a way for Southern planters to retain control when faced with a federal government that sought to limit slavery as an institution. This was immensely appealing to the Confederacy, which would lose the fight to retain slavery if democracy ruled the day.
Another legacy of William Potter Gale and the Posse Comitatus movement that Mack would adopt for his own constitutional sheriff ideology were the two theories of nullification and interposition. Both ideas justify resistance to the federal government, historically as a means to preserve chattel slavery and segregation. In essence, these legalistic theories are based on a reading of the Constitution and select writings by the Founding Fathers that argue states are entitled to resist or nullify laws that contradict the Constitution. As opposed to a court order declaring a law unconstitutional, nullification and interposition refer to the act of refusing to follow the law in question.
It is a matter of indisputable scientific fact that a distinct and separate human life begins at 12 the moment of fertilization. As such, that new human life is recognized by the State as an 13 individual person, entitled to the protection of the laws of this State from the moment of 14 fertilization until the moment of natural death. Any person who willfully seeks to destroy the life 15 of another person, by any means, at any stage of life, or succeeds in doing so, shall be held 16 accountable for attempted murder or for first degree murder, respectively. Any person has the 17 right to defend his or her own life or the life of another person, even by the use of deadly force 18 if necessary, from willful destruction by another person. The State has an interest and a duty to 19 defend innocent persons from willful destruction of their lives and to punish those who take the 20 lives of persons, born or unborn, who have not committed any crime punishable by death."
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So today, when more and more Democrats voice support for eliminating ICE, we should be wary. Certain calls for abolition are in reality a means to stabilize, not dismantle, the violence of immigration enforcement
When asked about use of force by deputies — including a fatal shooting by deputies in the past week — Joye and Martinez attributed police use of force to "repeat offenders" who they said should be behind bars. "My focus as chief — and also as sheriff — is looking at how can we really bring solutions to the repeat offender problem and looking at helping people who need help, getting diversion for folks who need diversion and behavioral and mental health for folks who need it," Joye said. "But also there are people who are legitimately dangerous, and we owe it to our community to do everything we can to make sure that they stay behind bars and separated from society."
“While this may begin a process of limited accountability, the federal agents who killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good are still employed,” said Jessica Pishko, author of The Highest Law in the Land. “This alone is a sign that DHS needs to be abolished.”
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