Far-Right Sheriffs
In 2019, nearly a quarter of the leadership of the National Sheriffs’ Association had ties to the Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA). CSPOA is a right-wing network of sheriffs founded by Richard Mack in 2011. Its ideology is rooted in a reading of the U.S. Constitution which prohibits almost the entire structure of the current U.S. federal government, especially its regulatory bodies. CSPOA sheriffs tend to endorse the transfer of federally-owned lands to county level government; harsher A term used to describe organizations, movements, ideas, and policies that oppose immigrants and immigration. Learn more enforcement; collaboration with militias; and nullification, the notion that federal laws can be ignored by local governments at either the county or state level.