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Casey Anthony has a problem with how Vice President JD Vance responded to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shooting in Minneapolis. Anthony, now 39, was accused of killing her toddler in 2008 and later acquitted. She was not found guilty of murder through her high-profile trial, but was found guilty of providing false information to authorities. She recently joined Substack and TikTok and describes herself as a legal advocate. In a Substack post written after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, Anthony called Vance out for his “lies and manipulation of the facts.”
After the shooting, Vance blamed Good for her death.
In a post on X, Vance called the shooting “a tragedy,” but also said it was “a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.” When speaking at the White House about the shooting, Vance defended the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross.
“The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action – that’s a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity,” Vance claimed. “He was doing his job.”
Experts have pushed back on this assertion. Per CNN, constitutional law expert Michael J.Z. Mannheimer said, “The idea that a federal agent has absolute immunity for crimes they commit on the job is absolutely ridiculous.”
This is preposterous.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) January 8, 2026
First of all, she's not waving the officers through and has no right to do so even if she were. She is waving another car through, before the officers approach her car.
Second, the officers are not randomly searching her, they are approaching her vehicle… https://t.co/2PnvK8KOCE
Anthony addressed Vance directly in her post.
In her Substack post, Anthony criticized Vance for this same reason. “There is no such thing as a federal law-enforcement officer having immunity because it is convenient for you and this Administration. This applies to your Gestapo agents in ICE,” Anthony wrote. “This crime needs to be investigated as all other officer-involved crimes need to be investigated in our country.”
Anthony also asserted that the ICE agent should be held accountable for what he did. “Hold this man accountable as you would if the woman he shot in cold blood would have fired upon him or anyone else,” she said.
She continued, “From those of us in the legal world, you should try consulting with someone other than the corrupt Attorney General of the United States to get your information about how our legal system and our Constitution are applied to ALL citizens, yourself included.”
Later in the post, she said, “We will not be blindly lead astray by your lies and manipulation of the facts…Where is the justice these victims and their families deserve?”
