YUP.
TBH I was surprised it was that recent. It sounds like a pre-colonial law descended from medieval English rules on sheriffs, from a time when disbursing money meant carrying around literal bags of silver coins on horses and you couldn’t just move it around easily.
No matter how you configure this, the Alabama sheriffs are as criminal as the citizens they put in jail.
Yes but they are white, corrupt and have the protection of a curious law…they can be as scummy as they can get away with.no downside except the revelation they are literally stealing taxpayer dollars with Impunity…
Another instance of how tax dollars flow from Blue to Red states… Imagine the outcry if this were NY or California.
It makes me wonder what other sources of extra income they had, ie… construction cost, medical treatment we haven’t heard about. .
She’s already past the primary–won it in a landslide. Now she positions for the general.
There’s always ’ next time ’ …
The really stupid thing is that it’s hard to change Alabama law - to do so probably requires a constitutional amendment.
Alabama, for those who don’t know, has the stupidest state constitution ever. It’s over 300,000 words long. The second longest constitution in the world is India’s national constitution, at a bit over 100,000 words, and India’s constitution had to account for thousands of years worth of historical law and precedent.
Alabama’s constitution is intentionally designed to make law as difficult as possible and remove any possibilities of local rule; they need to pass constitutional amendments for county officials to get a pay raise. It’s not ironic that the people who scream “state’s rights” don’t actually care about local power, because ‘state’s rights’ was only ever a dogwhistle to mean ‘let us be as racist as we want.’ The local governments are allowed to be as racist as they want, so long as they have no power to do anything else. So all the power is concentrated in the state, which has so many roadblocks to reform that the institutional power can’t be altered. It’s rotten as intended and designed.
Alabama’s government needs to be torn down and restarted from first principles, but I don’t trust any of those corrupt idiots with power in the state to do a good job of it. Allowed a constitutional convention, they would probably somehow make it worse.
And here I was just making a logical leap… I hate when smart-ass assumptions turn out to be reality. Time to head back to the pub.