Posted on 02/12/2018 3:02:22 PM PST by BenLurkin
Attorney General Jeff Sessions called sheriffs a "critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement" during a speech Monday.
"We must never erode this historic office," he told the National Sheriffs' Association. "I know this, you know this. We want to be partners, we don’t want to be bosses. We want to strengthen you and help you be more effective in your work."
Sessions made the comment after praising the 75-year-old law enforcement group and its effort to help the Justice Department and President Donald Trump crack down on illegal immigration, among other law enforcement issues.
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“As most law students learn in the first week of their first year, Anglo-American law — also known as the common law — is a shared legal heritage between England and America. The sheriff is unique to that shared legal heritage," Ian Prior, a spokesman for the department, said in a statement. "Before reporters sloppily imply nefarious meaning behind the term, we would suggest that they read any number of the Supreme Court opinions that use the term. Or they could simply put ‘Anglo-American law’ into Google.”
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I know it’s a big deal with all the dems and all their media whores, but who cares?
I trust the sheriff more than I trust the FBI or even the local cops.
I think that is taught in every law school in the U.S.
Oh, the horror! He forgot to mention that “sheriff” is derived from the Arabic “sharif”...
America is at the acme of world civilization. The full culmination of 4,000 years of Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman, Anglo-American progress.
Right you are. I posted an article on that topic just this morning.
It’s a good enough reason for Trump to fire his sorry ass.
"In British English, the political or legal office of a sheriff, term of office of a sheriff, or jurisdiction of a sheriff, is called a shrievalty[3] in England and Wales, and a sheriffdom[4] in Scotland.
"The Arabic term sharif ("noble"), sometimes rendered sherif, bears no historical or etymological connection."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff#Term
The other view is that the word sheriff actually dervies from the old word for county: shire. We even had shires in early America. Englishmen had sheriffs centuries before they even heard of Arabia. We still use similar words in English, for example baliff.
"[sheriff] an important official of a shire or county charged primarily with judicial duties (such as executing the processes and orders of courts and judges) " — Merriam-Webster.
Also of interest with regard to early America:
…the colony was divided into the original eight shires of Virginia (or counties), in a fashion similar to that practiced in England. Jamestown was now located in James City Shire, soon renamed the "County of James City", better known in modern times as James City County, Virginia, the nation's oldest county. — Wikipdia.
And the crackheads at NBC can’t help themselves but assume he means that in a racial way vs. the cultural and legla heritage of England and associated nations. Morons.
Absolutely. English common law is the basis for most law in the US.
I think Louisiana is based on French law. Guilty till proven innocent etc.
As most law students learn in the first week of their first year, Anglo-American law — also known as the common law — is a shared legal heritage between England and America.
Replace him with someone with ballz, please. This is the time we need a head hunter, not someone in retirement mode.....
keep on keepin’ on AG. doing great.
Sir Robert Peel, from whom “bobbies” got their name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel
It is nothing but the facts on the evolution of American law, beginning with its roots in Anglo-Saxon law in England and Great Britain.
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