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Badlands Daily: 4/30/26 - TPS Supreme Court Hearing, Redistricting Fallout, Comey Debate
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CannCon and Alpha Warrior close out April with a Thursday packed with courts, consequences, and a genuinely entertaining disagreement. The Supreme Court hears arguments on ending TPS for 330,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians, and the law could not be clearer: no judicial review of TPS terminations, full stop. Justice Alito spends a solid portion of the hearing making the plaintiff's attorney look like he wandered in from a different profession entirely. Brandon Gill breaks down the numbers: 65% of Haitian TPS households are on welfare, and with 1.3 million total TPS holders, the fiscal math is staggering. The Louisiana v. Calais redistricting decision reverberates as Florida passes a new map within hours, and CannCon maps out the New England representation gap where states averaging 42% Republican turnout have zero Republican congressional seats. Then the main event: CannCon and Alpha go head to head on the Comey indictment. CannCon calls it garbage political speech that will never see a courtroom. Alpha argues Comey's documented law enforcement knowledge of 86 as a term of violence makes it a prosecutable case and a potential RICO predicate. Nobody backs down.