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The Highest Law in the Land

How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
  • Jessica Pishko
2024
Dutton

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  • I.C.E. Parking Sign on a gate of a detention center.
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    The Making of the Deportation Machine

    The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.
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  • Sheriff Joe Arpaio riding in the back of a convertible car painted like an American flag.
    Book Review

    Are Sheriffs Above the Law?

    Many vignettes of sheriffs in action are dramatic and alarming. But how representative are they?
    by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books
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    on September 12, 2024
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