Anna VanCleave
@annakvancleave.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Director of Criminal Defense Clinic, UConn School of Law. Crim procedure, prisons, and fines/fees/bail.
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This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
July 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reposted by Anna VanCleave
I am glad people are fighting for Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s good character against the Trump Admin’s lies. But you know what—due process is a right due to us all (even the bad people). Our government when it makes decisions about our life and our liberty should make sure to get it right.
April 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I am glad people are fighting for Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s good character against the Trump Admin’s lies. But you know what—due process is a right due to us all (even the bad people). Our government when it makes decisions about our life and our liberty should make sure to get it right.
Reposted by Anna VanCleave
Justice Jackson is absolutely right here:
April 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Justice Jackson is absolutely right here:
Vote no.
Louisianians are voting today on a constitutional amendment that would give lawmakers much more power to send children to adult court - & potentially adult prisons. One proponent in the legislature said: "Some of these kids are already lost when they're two years old."
boltsmag.org/louisiana-am...
boltsmag.org/louisiana-am...
“Some of These Kids Are Already Lost When They’re Two Years Old” - Bolts
Louisiana leaders want more leeway to charge kids as adults. A measure on the March 29 ballot would enable lawmakers to move more teenagers into the adult criminal system.
boltsmag.org
March 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Vote no.
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#OPINION "Beyond the condemned I’ve seen the harm done to family members, victims, prison guards and even jurors. There may be too many people harmed by executions for Louisiana to bear. We don’t need this. Execution is not the solution."
✍: Denny LeBouf
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✍: Denny LeBouf
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March 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#OPINION "Beyond the condemned I’ve seen the harm done to family members, victims, prison guards and even jurors. There may be too many people harmed by executions for Louisiana to bear. We don’t need this. Execution is not the solution."
✍: Denny LeBouf
Click the 🔗 for more info!
buff.ly/w5H9ihA
✍: Denny LeBouf
Click the 🔗 for more info!
buff.ly/w5H9ihA
This is such an important bill, and a good example of what blue states can do right now.
A new Connecticut bill would ban businesses from supplying drugs and equipment for executions, revoking licenses for those that violate the law. If passed, it would be the first of its kind in the U.S.
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Connecticut Could Ban Its Businesses from Helping Carry Out Executions Elsewhere
Connecticut lawmakers are considering legislation to make it illegal to participate in the death penalty, following news that a local company helped fuel a federal execution spree.
boltsmag.org
February 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is such an important bill, and a good example of what blue states can do right now.
Reposted by Anna VanCleave
Next to filling judicial vacancies, this is the most important thing Biden can do in the final months of his presidency. Commute everyone's sentence on federal death row. We don't have to guess what Trump will do otherwise. He showed us in 2019-20.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Calls mount for Biden to spare federal death row inmates before Trump retakes office
Advocates implore Biden to ‘commute the row’ of prisoners sentenced to death before Trump restarts executions
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Next to filling judicial vacancies, this is the most important thing Biden can do in the final months of his presidency. Commute everyone's sentence on federal death row. We don't have to guess what Trump will do otherwise. He showed us in 2019-20.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...