Attorney General Jason Miyares opens his stump speech similar to Youngkin: says in 2021 Virginia was dying as a state. Says (paraphrasing) the current administration's tenure is a renaissance that Virginia hadn't seen in the state's 400 years of history.

Hey Nick Minock, did you consider talking to LAJC or anyone else familiar with this legislation before printing this fabrication in your story? Repealing presumptions against bail did not prevent anyone from being held on a charge. (If you’re interested in truth.)

As a public defender and a state Senator, l’m hard at work everyday to protect Virginians’ constitutional rights and ensuring fair trials for all, regardless of background or income. Justice Forward VA

We tried to warn how this technology could be abused, but too much of this money is in Virginia politics.

1 🚨 THREAD: ICE and CBP's increased funding is not getting enough coverage. It's the largest expansion of the power to arrest, cage, and kill in US history. They are building a fascist death machine to disappear immigrants and dissidents. Resist everyday, everywhere.

Experts have detailed that the BBB provides for more than $150B to expand surveillance & "immigration" detention. ICE’s annual budget will skyrocket from roughly $3.4B now to $45B until end of 2029—a 365% increase, a figure more than combined funding of all 50 federal prisons.

Former Chesterfield Commonwealth Attorney Scott Miles worries that murderers will not be convicted because of witnesses being afraid of ICE detaining them at the courthouse. The story he links to found that 10/15 detainments at the courthouse were for traffic offenses

🎉FINALLY! "We hold that Appellant has a meritorious Schlup claim for actual innocence...." WE CAN'T BELIEVE IT. Today is a tremendous day for #JustinWolfe and his family! Justin was on #Virginia's death row for years. #StopExecutions #InnocenceMatters #JusticeForJustin

"It's a major problem that agencies will use their point of access to the Flock system to get information in jurisdictions where it is either prohibited by law or the agency is not actively cooperating with ICE." -⁦Rob Poggenklass⁩ vpm.org/news/2025-07-0…

Regulation is good until you realize the federal government has stopped complying with the law. wric.com/news/local-new…

Let’s all be clear: the position of the Flock Safety bill proponents was that regs akin to Richmond’s would prevent ICE from accessing ALPR data. Justice Forward VA explained in painstaking detail why this wasnt true. They kept pushing their bill anyway. They were so incredibly wrong

Our friends at Justice Forward VA opposed the expansion of flock license plate reader cameras in Virginia for this exact reason! We know once you expand surveillance technology, that technology will always be used to surveil more people than orginially advertised.

Glenn Youngkin is either lying about the arrests or shipping untold Virginians off to a federal gulag, and he doesn’t think you deserve to know which one. Seems bad. pilotonline.com/2025/07/12/va-…

ICE was in the Fairfax Co. Courthouse this week. Their visit appeared to be welcomed & facilitated by the Sheriff. ICE waited until clients were separated from their att’ys to detain them, shuttle them off in unmarked vehicles, then laugh at those who asked what was going on 1/3

Ryne Sandberg. Second to None.

Is everyone else vacationing in Maine right now?

The Nat’l Conference of State Legislatures has updated its map to include VA as one of 39 states to place limits on shackling youth in courts! Huge thanks to public defenders across VA & The Gault Center for your many years of advocacy on this issue! ncsl.org/civil-and-crim… #VALeg

When giving a talk about why the US should stop arresting pot smokers, I like to say, “I’m a travel writer. For me, ‘high’ is a place, and sometimes I like to go there. That’s my civil liberty.” And today, the vast majority of Americans — whether they inhale or not — agree. If

DEFENSE ATTORNEYS: Register for VACDL’s virtual 1.5 hour MCLE credit—The State of Record Clearance in Virginia. The webinar, presented by Rob Poggenklass, covers updated record clearance information that lawyers MUST know. Today from 3PM-4:30PM: vacdl.org/event-6271649

This is hilarious. The lead authors of the study Miyares cites are (a) the Deputy Chief of the Salt Lake City Police, (b) former Exec. Dir. of the Utah Fraternal Order of Police, and; (c) a former DEA agent who’s published 4-5 papers about how racial profiling is good, actually.