Jessica Pishko

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I wish more people were pointing this out to voters in Montana. (Maybe there are some people doing it out there? Let me know.) Public lands access is one of the few things that has cross-party support with voters (rich politicians? welll...) We also have a significant % of Native American voters.

No one has written about this (I will) but Project 2025 will destroy federal lands as we know it as well as any progress towards recognizing Native peoples.

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No one has written about this (I will) but Project 2025 will destroy federal lands as we know it as well as any progress towards recognizing Native peoples.

There’s actually a chapter in the book about Ryan Williams’s western fantasies and why he chose sheriffs as a Claremont target. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263...

Wait until you see article about Coeur d'Alene.

The Highest Law in the Land by Jessica Pishko: 9780593471319 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Bookswww.penguinrandomhouse.com Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas Prize A Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they...

Does he know what happened at the Alamo?

Reupping for no reason. sheriffs.substack.com/p/trumps-fas...

Trump’s Fascist Michigan Speechsheriffs.substack.com April 4, 2024

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I mentioned the spinelessness of Chief Justice John Roberts on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social last week, and I haven't been able to get it out of my head. So, I wrote about it today at @lawdorknews.bsky.social —>

The spinelessness of John Robertswww.lawdork.com Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't want to lead. He is, though, carefully setting up a path to allow the right-wing court to respond to whatever comes its way in 2025.

Nyt magazine fr published a piece by this guy???

Now cops can arrest people who have no home while getting a home for free!

On the topic of immunity for killing people

We've now reached 200 death row exonerations. Meanwhile, the state with the most (Florida) is pushing to limit appeals, carry out executions more quickly, allow death sentences from non-unanimous juries, and impose the death penalty for crimes other than homicide.

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It’s not a coincidence that Claremont and Hillsborough are training and recruiting law enforcement.

Every cop who killed someone ever.

Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

I don’t have enough thoughts about establishment Dems to make a comment on strategy, but I do think the decades of supporting the Law Enforcement Baronial Class (including prosecutors) has set the stage for executing Project 2025.

We know what impunity looks like. It’s law enforcement.

Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.wapo.st How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

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Trump is capitalizing on this moment, with help from the press Check out my newsletter--> the-looking-glass-1.ghost.io/beware-trump...

I confess I sometimes struggle with the debates over fascism and democracy (despite engaging in it myself) because our government is executing people right now, with no mercy. www.texasobserver.org/ramiro-gonza...

Finding God, Asking State to Find Mercy on Death Rowwww.texasobserver.org Ramiro Gonzales will be put to death next Wednesday, unless the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommends clemency.

Trump can commit whatever crimes he likes, while the Feds continue to justify the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Leonard Peltier, Native American activist imprisoned for almost 50 years, denied parole requestwww.nbcnews.com The latest bid for Peltier's early release for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents drew staunch opposition from law enforcement.

For no reason, pointing out that one of Trump's last acts (after Jan 6 no less) was to make it easier for law enforcement, including federal prosecutors, to carry and use concealed firearms. trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential...

Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.

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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.

I have more to say on the Grants Pass holding, but I've reported before on how sheriffs see houselessness, especially rural houselessness, as an opportunity to make money and consolidate power. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Repurposing of the American Jailwww.theatlantic.com Jails and prisons are becoming substance-abuse treatment facilities—even for those who haven’t been accused of a crime.

A vigilante world -- order without laws.

Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

So being a president IS like being a sheriff, SCOTUS decides.

I have a new piece up at Democracy Docket www.democracydocket.com/opinion/can-...

Can Sheriffs Endorse Candidates While in Uniform? This One Thinks He Canwww.democracydocket.com “I think it’s time we put a felon in the White House,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said, with a smirk to the camera.

Same applies to the non-citizen children of the non-citizen spouse fyi (as well as non-citizen adoptees). You have to apply. And if anyone has an arrest -- which a lot of young men of color do -- they will generally get rejected for the green card.

“Marriage is not an automatic ticket to a green card. A married citizen-noncitizen couple must jump through a series of administrative hoops to apply for the lawful permanent residency that marriage can confer.”

Heller definitely just made up new law, although I think - militias included not just slave patrols but also killing Native people in the West. Anyways, I talk quite a lot about this in my book, as it relates to sheriffs. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263...

THERE ARE NO SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS UNLESS YOU’RE IN A STATE MILITIA in a time before standing armies. Thomas made that up!! In 2008. In Heller. With Scalia. Say it with me: “The Scalia Second Amendment is Bullshit.”

The Rahimi ruling -- not terribly surprising -- does nothing for domestic violence. Police never, ever confiscated Rahimi's firearms in related to the protective order. They only did something two years when he fired his weapon outside a Whataburger. sheriffs.substack.com/p/women-foug...

Women Fought the Law, and the Law Wonsheriffs.substack.com November 2, 2023

As I worked on my book, I asked people over and over exactly HOW the Second Amendment is “threatened” in light of court rulings.

Look, I agree Trump is lionizing J6 defendants, but let's not pretend like law enforcement and members of the military aren't...hired to kill people. Contradicting Trump by lionizing USA's professional killers (many of who support Trump) cannot be the best way. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

What if -- hear me out -- "originalism" is just a fig leaf for ideas that are complicit in mass genocide, the displacement of Native Americans, chattel slavery, and sexism? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Amy Coney Barrett Sounds Fed Up With Clarence Thomas’ Sloppy Originalismslate.com In a trademark case, Barrett agreed with Thomas’ bottom line but sharply disagreed with pretty much everything else.

RFK JR is going to address the National Sheriffs' Association at their annual conference in OK. gazette.com/news/wex/rfk...

RFK Jr. takes border closing pitch to sheriffs’ conventiongazette.com Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking his commonsense call to end the border crisis to a group on the front lines: America’s sheriffs. The National Sheriffs’ Association