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Its not just posturing though. They will refuse anything even mask mandates etc. The situation with Arizona alarming the White House now. You can pick which counties have sheriffs defying state orders by how bad the county is doing.
Just not saying anything would probably deterred someone from breaking it.
They still can't go into homes and tell people to get out or limit them. That's still on families. Like this would ultimately be on them having the common sense not to get together.
Sure, cops pick and choose what and how to enforce the law all the time. It's illegal for them to violate the law, not to decline to dedicate resources to a particular type of enforcement. This would be pretty much unenforceable anyway.
That's how the Republican gubernatorial candidate here in Washington rose to fame. He was a police chief who refused to enforce a voter-approved law raising the minimum age for purchasing assault rifles. Naturally, he became a right wing messiah and faced no repercussions.
This kind of statement is a two way street though and the same logic that vl the Obama administration used to justify it's deportations.
Sheriff's probably are not the correct entity to enforce this. It should probably be the fire marshal.
I live in Europe and we had to enforce a lockdown to try to prevent private gatherings because too many people kept flouting these rules.
