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DOJ demands names, release dates of noncitizens in California jails as Trump deportation efforts ramp up
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office later hit back at AG Pam Bondi by referencing the ongoing controversy over the ...
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Trump administration requests data on undocumented immigrants in LA, other California jails
Los Angeles and other California counties were asked Thursday to provide the names of all undocumented inmates in their jail ...
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Sheriffs Already Have Too Much Power. Who Will Stop Them Now?
Despite decades of efforts to reform policing in the United States and the massive anti-brutality demonstrations of 2020, police officers continue to avoid prosecution for murder charges and ...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 292: The Sheriff, the Constitution, and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism
Journalist and legal scholar Jessica Pishko discusses the rise of far-right sheriffs in the US and argues that the office of ...
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‘Take Back the States’: The Far-Right Sheriffs Ready to Disrupt the ...
Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.
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States are telling sheriffs whether they can — or can’t — work ...
Local sheriffs are on the front lines in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans, states often make the choice for them. States are telling sheriffs whether they can — or can’t ...
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The Political Power of Sheriffs Is Rarely Seriously Challenged - Governing
Adapted from The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States by Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, which will be published in September by the University of Chicago Press.