The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff
”Mack’s mythical development of the constitutional sheriff forms a central thread in The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy by journalist and attorney Jessica Pishko. The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States, by political scientists Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, explores the wider landscape in which the constitutional sheriff has flourished. The podcast series, The Insurgence: Sheriffs, created and hosted by Cloee Cooper, research director at Political Research Associates traces the trajectory of Gale, Mack and the myth-making of other constitutional sheriffs to the January 6 insurrection and beyond.”