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A ‘cons utional’ sheriff’s fiefdom: COVID amok, guns aplenty, and hunting cougars with hounds​Klickitat
Klickitat County Sheriff Bob Songer strikes a statuesque pose for his official portraitCounty Sheriff Bob Songer strikes a statuesque pose for his official portrait
deferring to no other governing body and
accountable to no one. Songer adamantly refuse to enforce Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 masking and other health restrictions—
when he recently came down with the illness himself,
Songer’s impact as a rogue sheriff has proven to be far-reaching, particularly as a result of perhaps his most notorious activity:
hunting down and eradicating mountain lions in his county using posses with hound packs,
a practice banned by the state in 1996 and a law Songer claims sheriffs like himself are exempt from.
refused to enforce the state’s new restrictive gun laws, which were approved by over 60% of voters in 2018.
new law “is uncons utional on several grounds. I’ve taken the position that as an elected official, I am not going to enforce that law.”
Songer led a group of fellow “cons utional” sheriffs in a revolt against enforcing the shutdown of businesses and masking requirements in his county.
“cons utionalists” believe conspiracist far-right theories that the sheriff of each county is the supreme law of the land,
capable of overruling federal and state laws as well as the judiciary itself in determining which laws are “cons utional.”
ex-sheriff Richard Mack’s nationwide organization that promotes these groundless theories,
which extremists like Cliven and Bundy have leveraged to create armed standoffs with federal officers.
“No Governor’s proclamations or orders can override your liberties without violating your Cons utional Rights even during a crisis.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2047181
