Trump’s Washington is packed with Claremont fellows. That’s no accident. - POLITICO

Note: The Claremont Institute is funded by Catholic activist Leonard Leo. 

"The main challenge post-Trump is going to be holding this coalition together, the one that Trump built and expanding on it," Williams, the Claremont president, said. "The two Trump administrations have made a lot of progress on issues that we care about, on immigration, on separation of powers, on the bureaucracy. But really, to get ourselves back to a more robust constitutionalism, we would hope that the right would finally win a decisive and realigning election."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/how-the-claremont-institute-became-a-power-center-in-trumps-washington-00700147

How the [Un]Constitutional Sheriff Movement Threatens Democracy (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad is joined by first-time guest Jessica Pishko, author of the book The Highest Law in the Land. 

The discussion centers around the constitutional sheriff movement, highlighting how sheriffs, despite being elected law enforcement officers, often act as unaccountable power brokers within the counties they serve. 

The conversation covers the sheriffs’ role in both law enforcement and detention, their hard-to-remove positions, and the influence of far-right ideologies, particularly the constitutional sheriffs led by Richard Mack. 

This episode also touches upon the involvement of the Claremont Institute with sheriffs, propagandist roles, and the significant racial and political implications of their actions and ends with a call to reassess the necessity and role of county sheriffs in modern American governance.

Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/how-the-unconstitutional-sheriff-movement-threatens-democracy/

Revealed: documents shed light on shadowy US far-right fraternal order | US news | The Guardian

(This group has ties to the Claremont Institute and the Manhattaln Institute, both of which get support from Leonard Leo, the influential and wealthy Catholic recently reported to support a white nationalist organization. He also has ties to the wealthy donors who generously gifted Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito.)

New documents detail inner workings of Society for American Civic Renewal, group with an emphasis on Christian nationalism…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/far-right-fraternal-order-sacr

US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order

The Guardian reported last August that on his website Haywood has repeatedly envisioned serving as a "warlord" at the head of an "armed patronage network" which might at some point find itself in conflict with the federal government…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/claremont-institute-society-for-american-civic-renewal-links

And keep in mind that this group has the backing of Leonard Leo, the influential and wealthy Catholic who gets other wealthy people to lavish gifts on justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/feb/09/leonard-leo-federalist-society-trump-ballot-supreme-court

‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade - The New York Times

"In support of ridding schools of C.R.T., the Right argues that we want nonpolitical education," Mr. Klingenstein wrote in August 2021. "No we don't. We want our politics. All education is political."…

"Our sexual culture will not heal until 'faggot' replaces 'bigot' as the slur of choice," or "Our sexual culture will not be healed until we once again agree that homosexuality belongs in the closet and that a healthy society requires patriarchy." … 

In another email to Dr. Yenor, Ms. Mac Donald reflected on a further "curse of feminism": the proliferation of "nannies of color" in her Manhattan neighborhood and the "bizarreness" of women entrusting their children to caregivers from "the low IQ 3rd world" while devoting themselves to making partner at a law firm...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html

Far-right US thinktank to give award to extremist sheriff leading ‘disaster’ office | Republicans | The Guardian

Bianco is a defendant in at least half a dozen lawsuits filed on behalf of people who died while incarcerated in Riverside county's jail system, including three filed last month, according to media reports and federal court records…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/06/trump-republicans-law-enforcement-jeff-sessions

MAGA Claremont Institute Honors Sheriffs Who Defy Laws They Don’t Like

The Claremont Institute's new "sheriffs fellows" have vowed not to enforce pandemic restrictions, vaccine mandates, gun laws—and basically any other laws they disagree with...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-claremont-institute-honors-sheriffs-who-defy-laws-they-dont-like