A look inside the secretive Claremont Institute program to indoctrinate and empower 'Constitutional Sheriffs' to defy state and federal law.
of “Sheriff Fellows.” Over the course of a week, eight sheriffs—all white men—chosen from the more than 3,000 in the country stayed at the Waterfront Beach Resort in Huntington Beach, attending a series of discussions, lectures, and fireside chats steeped in the far right-wing think tank’s heady intellectualism and radical ideology.
Public information requests and other reporting have provided insight into the stated and unstated reasons behind the Claremont Institute’s recruitment of county sheriffs, as well as revealing the curriculum of the fellowship. What emerges in reviewing this information is a portrait of the far-right’s deep investment in sheriffs.