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Glamour Judge vs. Fragile Sheriff – The Oklahoma Political Feud Nobody Asked For

9:52 AM EDT on April 1, 2025

Over the past week or so, I’ve been watching with mild bemusement the mystifyingly mind-numbingly, lavishly overblown feud between Oklahoma County Judge Amy Palumbo and Sheriff Tommie Johnson III.

In case you’ve missed it, here’s the TL;DR:

• Judge Palumbo was rude—possibly even (gasp!) mean—to Sheriff Johnson’s overly sensitive deputies and yelled at them for being too loud in the hallway. She then summoned Sheriff Johnson to her courtroom to yell at him, too.