posse comitatus

“There is a law on the books, confirmed by the Constitution, called ‘posse comitatus,’” Pritzker told reporters earlier this month.

“There is a law on the books, confirmed by the Constitution, called ‘posse comitatus,'” Pritzker said.

Authorities back then could marshal a crew of civilians, called a posse comitatus, to assist them, as sometimes happened in California during the Gold Rush.

Constitutional sheriffs — an outgrowth of the white-nationalist posse comitatus movement — claim they are above federal and state government and are the ultimate arbiters of the law.

Related is the "constitutional sheriffs" movement, which also tries to make itself sound more official by using the name "posse comitatus."