The constitutional sheriffs movement has percolated across the nation as some sheriffs have vowed to not enforce laws ranging from gun bans to COVID-19 restrictions.
, the roughly 90 Illinois sheriffs have declared their opposition to the law, proclaimed it unconstitutional and said they won’t enforce it.
“It’s a battle in the heavenly places, and it’s good versus evil and the side that represents freedom, that represents those good principles, and is not confused by the deception that we can provide you peace and security if you give us all your freedom,” said Jeff Bullard, sheriff of downstate Jefferson County, who has said he got his master’s degree in criminal justice administration from Missouri Baptist University.
“What’s right is right and what’s wrong is wrong. And this law is 100% wrong and we have to continue to push forward with that and hopefully, more and more officers and law enforcement leaders in our state and across this nation really understand that,” he said. “If we want to be united behind the badge, that badge has got to be serving the federal Constitution first and foremost.”
Mendrick said he would not send law enforcement officers door-to-door to see if lawful gun owners had registered their weapons. The new law doesn’t require gun owners to register their so-called assault weapons until October of this year and the outright ban on having an assault weapon for anyone not registered to have one doesn’t go into effect until 2024.
“The gun law verbiage was taken out to satisfy me that I wasn’t going to pledge to this gun law,” he said, later lashing out at the law as “garbage” and an example of Democratic ideology and “a furtherance of their socialist agenda.” Asked if he sees himself as being part of a movement like the constitutional sheriffs, Mendrick said, “No, I see myself as being a conservative that’s trying to safeguard my society.”
Farris, the Texas Christian University professor, noted “this larger movement in U.S. politics around Christian nationalism.” She said while she has not specifically researched the issue among sheriffs, “it makes sense to me that there’s kind of overlapping ideas here about America in their minds being a Christian nation that requires some use of force to protect this kind of mythical origin that they talk about.
“But I think sheriffs have a right just like anybody else does to have an opinion on something, right?” he said. “So, I think they said what their opinion was.” Citing emails it obtained from several county sheriff offices, the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, a group that tracks white supremacist organizations, said Kaitschuk passed on information to sheriffs about the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association event in Springfield.of the Springfield event from Jennifer Martin, a Perry County Board member, and spoke to her at the request of Jefferson County Sheriff Bullard.
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