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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 5h

I think there's a third option. We can hate the situation, even work hard to fix it, and yet fully expect to fail.

Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 6h

Really, it's more like stabbing a corpse. It's repugnant and sloppy, but the corpse doesn't extra-die.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 8h

And many things never happen.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 8h

5. If it hasn't happened yet, it won't happen. The country is lost for generations.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 8h

Curious...what would be the South Korea, 1 million people surround the Capitol moment for U.S.?

1) SCOTUS strikes down Voting Rights Act
2) Trump invokes Insurrection Act ahead of election, troops at blue polling places
3) A modern Kent State-style shooting
4) Something else
5) Absolutely nothing

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 9h

An immigration system for the West and whitest.

Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 9h

They're not legitimately afraid of it so much as they want everyone on board when they start killing protesters.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 10h

Judge Trump Barry also went with a similar look.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 10h

Ha ha ha, my most senior adviser is a psychotic racist who isn't shy about it, isn't that a gas.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 10h

So the material support bar applies even if you provided support under duress but the persecutor bar doesn't apply to pene-literal Nazis.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 11h

So Nazis. They want to give refugee status to Nazis.

OK, maybe not JUST Nazis. Also certain other white people who hate non-white immigration. But Nazis can definitely come.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 12h

Probably not something they'll have to worry about after today's argument in _Callais_.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

I think it's poorly understood just how little in the way of guardrails there are right now on DHS/ICE agents. Rep Swalwell argues Dems should make it clear that rogue officials will face serious scrutiny in a Dem House:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 16h

It's probably not "no kings".

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

BESSENT: Ambassador Jamieson is a lawyer. I am not.

REPORTER: As am I.

BESSENT: I won't tell you the one thing I agreed with Lenin on

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 16h

The idea that you can be vindicated by your coconspirators…

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 17h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
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He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 17h

No I assume they're antiimmigration, but has there been any noise from the minority language partisans?

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 18h

If anything can be protest music, can we sponsor someone to go to Tom Homan's next event and play the theme from The Price is Right?

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 23h

How do the areas of the UK that aren't England feel about this?

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

We're no more than a couple months away from them deciding they don't need to reach a destination country at all and can just push people out of the aircraft over open ocean instead so they can return faster for the next mission.

Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 1d

This is what you do when you fundamentally believe you are not dealing with fellow human beings. Just inconvenient cargo to be neutralized and jettisoned.

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

apnews.com

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 2d

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 2d

But, because immigration law wouldn't be immigration law without some exceptions, A and G diplomats and Canadian Jay Treaty beneficiaries do not.

(If you have to ask if you're one of these, you are not.)

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 2d

They're clearly not trying very hard then.

"Federal criminal law only applies to humans. Since Tom Homan is just a bloodhound who wished to be a real boy, he is not subject and therefore immune from prosecution."

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 2d

The White House has had nearly a month to come up with some talking points on Tom Homan’s cash-in-a-Cava-bag scandal.

The latest comments from JD Vance and Pam Bondi suggested that Team Trump still hasn’t come up with much of a defense. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer

The attorney general and the vice president confronted straightforward questions about the scandal surrounding the border czar. Both Republicans struggled.

www.msnbc.com

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 2d

Why do they care? Isn't their whole thing that whoever can buy the most speech wins?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Sean Duffy says the No Kings protests this Saturday are “really frustrating” because they are all paid Antifa people.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 2d

Is this any firearm? Because I feel like I could have a lot of fun in a grocery store with a potato cannon.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 2d

Let's start with the least useful position in the federal government. Say, one once compared unfavorably to a bucket of warm piss.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stalemate in Congress.

Vance warns 'deeper' cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day

Vice President JD Vance is warning of deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on.

bit.ly

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 2d

Consular nonreviewability now everywhere

Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 2d

That order wasn’t final.

Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 3d

That deadline was jurisdictional.

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