Yeah, here’s the thing about that...Bob wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 2:23 pm Here is a scenario. His extracurricular issues are determined for him to be guilty, he is found ineligible for the Job, and thus was in violation of the position, which he knew when he took it, thus any of his charges are null and void while there. Including making you all deputies.
His alleged affair was when he worked FOR a different agency. It may have violated that agencies policies, but he’s not longer there so it’s moot. On the other hand, he’s now a duly elected official i.e. a Sheriff in a completely different county. An alleged affair that happened at another time in another place apparently didn’t prevent him from becoming a duly elected official. So he isn’t going to lose his job because the only way to remove him is to lose his next election or be removed by the Governor for something a lot more serious than an alleged affair.
Yeah, here’s the thing about that...Bob wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 2:23 pm I'm gonna be a realist here and say the first one to do a "Mass deputization" is going to be in deep crap legally for the rest of his life. The difference being he might not be involved in it, but you will for anything you do as a deputy.
We do not live in a land of black/white and laws, or justice. We live in a land of argumentative lawyers, debate, precedent, and politics.
It’s been done, all over the country at different times in our history. Even into recent times.
https://stories.avvo.com/nakedlaw/bizar ... posse.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_comitatus
See Florida State Statute 30.071 (1) (d).
It is the same authority that the POTUS can institute to enable the NG and/or regular military to execute law enforcement;
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42659.pdf
So there ya go. It has been done many, many times and can still be done and is done when it’s felt necessary and appropriate to the situation.