"Office of Sheriff is a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement."..

[HipChick]

Out loud...not even a dog whistle..

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[Gothmog]

1. Sessions is not even trying to hide the fact that he is a racist

[TomSlick]

2. I give up, what is he talking about.

Is there some effort to erode the office of sheriff?

[Mister Ed]

8. There's an extreme and often violent far-right element who call themselves "Sovereign Citizens"...

...and believe that the only legitimate governmental authority is a local sheriff.

[TomSlick]

10. Beauregard is a little racist squint and less lawyer than my beagle

but has he ever shown any interest in the Sovereign Citizen movement? Are we sure he isn't talking about something else?

[Mister Ed]

12. He might just be saying nice things about sheriffs to a roomful of sheriffs.

It might not be a dog-whistle. I can't tell for sure.

[TomSlick]

15. Yeah, I'm not convinced it's a dog-whistle.

[walkingman]

3. This entire Trump cabinet is full of racist fools. And yet the GOP stands firmly behind them.

Hopefully 2018 will be the beginning of a reckoning. We deserve better than this.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

7. Because congressional republikkklans ARE racists, and

represent racist America...have for decades! Any decent person left in white supremacist party aka republikkklan party should leave now...if not, then you stand with hate policies, hate propaganda and lies towards non white, non christian, lgbt, Americans, immigrants and refugees, and all women; policies that hurt the sick, poor, disabled--the most vulnerable among us.

What did God say to Lot? "Find me
one good person and I'll spare them all," lot found not one..

[elleng]

4. Right,

The Sheriff of Nottingham.

[AJT]

5. The office of sherrif is the only law enforcement the

white supremacist "sovereign citizens" recognize. There are a number of sherrifs that are members of the sovereign citizens. I am guessing he's talking to them.

[Glimmer of Hope]

9. Of course. He has no shame.

[BootinUp]

6. Just more dog-whistle politics

[blogslut]

11. Also kiiiick

[Hekate]

13. If he were not such a racist pig, he could talk about English Common Law that goes back centuries...

...and have some credibility when he references our "Anglo-American heritage."

In point of fact, we DO derive our laws largely from England. Under, for instance, Napoleonic Law, if a person is arrested, they are presumed guilty. If they were not guilty, the reasoning goes, why would the gendarmes have arrested them in the first place? I believe Mexico also has a version of Napoleonic Law.

In both Britain and America, there is supposed to be a supposition of innocence, and it is up to the court system to prove that the defendant is guilty. No matter how often we fail, that supposition of "innocent until proven guilty" is bedrock to our legal system.

Believe me, it is not like that in the rest of the world. Be glad of our Anglo-American heritage in the law, even if it is a racist talking about it.

[Gothmog]

14. Sessions is indeed a racist

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