sheriff
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“There’s a new sheriff in town,” Duffy said at a news conference in Detroit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Bessent praised Warsh earlier this year as a “new sheriff in town.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The state Supreme Court heard arguments in those cases Monday, and while we’ll have to wait for the official rulings, things did not seem to go well for the sheriff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Might Carse have been less inclined to step out of line had the new sheriff been in town?
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
The youngsters were standing silently outside the courthouse, displaying crayoned signs urging equal voting rights, when the sheriff ordered them to follow him down the street.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
Five West Texas sheriffs likewise wrote to federal officials saying advanced surveillance technology would be better suited to stopping undocumented migration in the rugged terrain.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
I saw two officials in sheriffs uniforms, one of whom was from Nebraska.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Separately, Bonta’s office filed its own action, with that issue of constitutional sheriffs front and center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
Security at Mar-a-Lago is extremely tight, with an outer cordon of local Palm Beach sheriffs and an inner one maintained by the Secret Service.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
They were state troopers, local police officers, deputy sheriffs, and what appeared to be part of a National Guard unit.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
