Was a sovereign citizen elected to a leadership position with the Utah State Republican Party? The Davis County Republican Party has elected three members who recently signed a legal document using sovereign citizen symbols to Utah GOP leadership.
The copyright symbol behind her name and signature is known as a “Common Law Copyright Notice,” commonly used by sovereign citizens, according toSovereign citizens can also use several other grammatical items found in Horlacher’s document, such as Horlacher identifying herself as a “North American/State Citizen, non-corporate living woman” and putting the city name of Syracuse in brackets.
There’s often stiff competition among Republicans for spots on the 186-member Utah GOP State Central Committee, which is the governing body for the party. Outgoing state party chairman Carson Jorgensen did not respond to questions about the possibility that sovereign citizens, or at least those sympathetic to the movement, have a prominent place in the party’s leadership.
This is not the first instance of the sovereign citizen movement intersecting with the Davis County Republican Party. Alena Ericksen, who has adopted rhetoric common among sovereign citizens, was a candidate for an open seat in the Utah House of Representatives in 2022.The sovereign citizen movement was thrust into the spotlight in March after the
in Farmington. Security footage from the incident showed Allan’s car displayed a known sovereign citizen symbol.were on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol when a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters attacked Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to prevent the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s election win. There’s no evidence that either entered the Capitol that day and the
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