A LAW FIRM SUED TO REOPEN THE GREEN CARD LOTTERY. Red Eagle Law, an immigration firm with two dozen employees in Bonsall, California, took Secretary of State Marco Rubio to court in August. Not for an immigrant. For itself. The lottery hands out up to 55,000 green cards a year by random draw. The State Department never opened the 2027 drawing. The firm told the judge that drawing was worth as much as 29 percent of its gross revenue. Judge Jinsook Ohta, a Biden appointee in San Diego, bought it and ordered Rubio to open registration by Sunday. Thursday the Ninth Circuit, the federal appeals court for the West Coast, froze that order 3 to 0, Clinton, Bush and Biden appointees together. They wrote that they do not endorse what State did. They froze it anyway, because of who was asking. The program "was enacted to encourage immigration, not generate revenue for law firms." The lottery has been shut since December, after the Brown University gunman, a Portuguese national, turned out to have come in on one of these visas. They were not fighting for the immigrant. They were fighting for the invoice. 💎