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Senator Eric Schmitt
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Official account of United States Senator Eric Schmitt.
May 12 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
J.B. Pritzker called Callais an “abomination.”

No wonder. Illinois built one of the clearest race-based redistricting regimes in the country.

Just filed: the first major post-Callais lawsuit—and Illinois is the target. Time to enforce Callais nationwide. Image
Image According to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, its client is challenging the Illinois Voting Rights Act of 2011’s redistricting mandates under the Fifteenth Amendment and federal Voting Rights Act.

That is exactly the kind of litigation Callais invites. Image
May 8 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Virginia's map just got struck down. Is California next?

California's "mapmaker" drew its new maps to "ensure" that racially gerrymandered "VRA seats are bolstered in order to make them most effective." That's illegal under Callais.

@AAGDhillon: Here's how we can do it. 🧵 Image California state law requires an "independent" Commission to draw its district maps.

But Newsom and state Legislature Dems overrode the Commission last year to gerrymander.

That meant hiring a "mapmaker"—Paul Mitchell—to do it.

But he drew an illegal racial gerrymander. Image
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May 5 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
H-1B fraud is a scam on American workers.

I just received the official USCIS FY2025 H-1B report. Over 406,348 approvals.

What I found is a flood of foreign labor. Sovereignty, security, and basic morality be damned. 🧵 Image 62% of all H-1B approvals? Tech-related occupations.

Over 252,000. Over 60% of ALL approvals were for tech and IT roles Americans already fill.

Big Tech uses this program to import cheap replacements while laying off U.S. workers. Disgraceful. Image
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Apr 30 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Today—as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution—I urged @DAGToddBlanche and @AAGDhillon to act on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais.

DOJ has the power to enforce this decision nationwide and must use it to end illegal racially-gerrymandered districts. Image My Subcommittee has oversight responsibility for constitutional rights, civil-rights enforcement, and DOJ's Civil Rights Division.

We are going to use it.

It's time to enforce our laws and our color-blind Constitution. We must undo prior race-based actions.
Apr 30 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
I’ve spent the last year working with USCIS to root out and terminate H-1B abuses.

We've worked together to expose how the Left weaponized H-1Bs into a DEI fraud factory.

We're shutting it down. Here's the most recent data. 🧵 Image
Image Last September, I demanded answers on H-1B visas for DEI roles.

Apr 24 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
What I've found is staggering.

46,547 OPT workers. 19,285 employers.

New OPT data from California was provided to my office.🧵 Image Remember, OPT lets foreign students work in jobs directly related to their college major.

STEM gets UP TO 3 YEARS. Employers skip taxes—a 15%+ subsidy.

Cheap foreign labor on steroids, while Americans bear the cost of their own replacement.
Apr 21 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Today, I am chairing a hearing that will expose how Arctic Frost became the backbone of a sweeping lawfare campaign against President Trump and the American Right.

This was coordinated pressure campaign against an entire political movement.

Americans demand accountability. 🧵 Image The hearing will focus on how Arctic Frost turned into a dragnet reaching President Trump, his lawyers, former officials, Republican organizations, conservative institutions, communications records, and Members of Congress.

That is raw use of unchecked state power.
Apr 14 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
"The pursuit of this improper investigation is a clear abuse of discretion." Judge Boasberg just got slapped down...again.

The walls are closing in on his crusade to jail Trump officials for DEPORTING Venezualan terrorists.

It's clear: time to impeach Rogue Judge Boasberg. 🧵 Image
Image To review: last March, Judge Boasberg forced himself onto the "turn the planes around" case—just a few days after trying to foment a constitutional crisis at a Judicial Conference meeting.

He has spent the past year trying to jail prosecutors and cabinet Secretaries. Image
Apr 10 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Update in my fight to dismantle the broken OPT system—ICE just got me the numbers:

In Missouri alone there are 4,430 OPT visas—many working in jobs that are out-of-scope, stealing opportunities from young Missourians.

Here are some of the worst examples.🧵 OPT jobs *must* be directly related to the student’s major area of study.

And if you're a STEM major, you get *3-years of work authorization.*

Not only that, OPT holders are exempt from FICA taxes—a >15% tax subsidy for employers.
Apr 9 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Did you know our Judiciary has its own taxpayer-funded “neutral training pipeline"?

Meet the USAID of Article III.

The Federal Judicial Center. What I've uncovered isn't "neutral" judicial training. It's ideological capture. Take a look at how it's infecting our judiciary. 🧵 Image The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) is the official research and education arm of the federal courts, created by Congress to train and equip our nation's judges.

It shapes how these judges evaluate evidence.

Its materials influence real court cases across the country every day.
Apr 2 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
ActBlue, the Democrats’ campaign cash machine, has faced many recent criminal allegations.

• Illegal "Smurfing"
• Turning a "blind eye" to illegal foreign donations
• Nonprofit fraud

Now it's time to add "lying to Congress."

Could we finally see a criminal investigation? 🧵 Image The core problem is simple:

ActBlue touted to Congress supposed “multilayered” protections, but investigators found major gaps in how its fraud controls were actually applied.

That’s not only an election-integrity problem. It’s also potentially a criminal problem.
Apr 2 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
How do we deport 1 million illegal aliens in 2026?

@Phase2Deport just released a playbook to help do just that. I hope my Senate colleagues read this one.

Let's break it down. 🧵 Image What they've done is lay out a list of 21 ways to both:

1. Incentivize illegal aliens to self-deport.
2. Retool our federal government's approach to identify and prioritize mass deportations. Image
Apr 2 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The Trump DOJ recently won a massive case at the 8th Circuit.

For months, rogue district court judges in MN have engaged in all-out resistance.

ICE would arrest illegal aliens, but these judges would then immediately spring them loose.

The 8th Circuit just put an end to it. Image A bit of background:
In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA).
The bill passed with large bipartisan majorities.

President Clinton signed it.

(This was before Democrats adopted their radical open borders ideology.)
Apr 1 • 38 tweets • 7 min read
Live-tweeting now while listening in: Oral arguments in the landmark birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara.

There is 1 hour scheduled for the argument, but I expect this argument to go somewhere around 2.5-3 hours, given how thorny and important of an issue this is. 🧵 Arguing today are Solicitor General John Sauer, who was my Solicitor General when I was Attorney General of Missouri. He has a very impressive win record at the Supreme Court and is representing the government.

And Cecilia Wang, the National Legal Director for the ACLU.
Apr 1 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
Today, the Supreme Court will hear the Birthright Citizenship case.

American citizenship is a sacred privilege, not an automatic gift to those who break our laws.

I've been fighting on this issue in the Senate and at the Supreme Court. Here's what I'll be listening for. 🧵 Image The case—Trump v. Barbara—presents SCOTUS with this question:

Whether President Trump's executive order interpreting the 14th Amendment and federal law to NOT require unlimited birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens and temporary visitors is legal. Image
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Feb 18 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The H-1B visa system is riddled with abuse.

This new study confirms it: Companies aren't using H-1B visas to bring in the "best and brightest"; many are using them to import cheap foreign labor and undercut US wages.

We must end this abuse and protect the American worker. Image The study found companies pay H-1Bs 16% LESS than comparable American workers.

So over the 6-year term of an H-1B visa, employers save more than $100,000 by hiring foreigners instead of Americans.

That's why President Trump put a $100k filing fee on new H-1B applications. Image
Feb 13 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Every day we are hearing new stories out of college sports that just don’t make sense – the system is broken.

This year we can stabilize the environment, put athletes first & protect the fan experience🧵 As the Commerce Committee works to address the issues this year, here are some of the things that we can do to fix college sports once and for all.

✅Secure Stability
✅Put Players First
✅Save Women's & Olympic Sports
✅Ensure College Sports Can Endure
Feb 5 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
A Leftist NGO testified before @SenJudiciaryGOP, arguing against President Trump's recent anti-fraud efforts.

I did a little digging into the NGO—Public Citizen—and found two things:
1. It's funded by George Soros.
2. It calls everything it doesn't like "racist."

Receipts. 🧵 Public Citizen, which calls itself a "national public interest organization," is actually a foot soldier in the George Soros extended NGO network, receiving over $6 million in recent years from Soros's "Open Society" leftist NGO slush fund. Image
Feb 3 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Netflix once said it had a "duty" to "speak up" for DEI, gender ideology, and other left-wing causes.

Today, their CEO suddenly forgot how to answer.

Netflix came to the Senate, asking we rubber-stamp their $100B acquisition of Warner Bros.

Receipts. 🧵 In June 2020, Netflix tweeted out a video titled "To My White Friends: Guilt, Shame, Embarrassment"

Netflix followed on with a tweet quoting: “We need to do everything in our power to amplify that message..."
Feb 2 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause was never meant to grant citizenship to children of illegal aliens, tourists, or foreign students.

The Drafters said so explicitly. The courts ignored them.

For our national sovereignty, security, and Constitution, I filed this brief. 🧵 Image Here's what's happening:

President Trump issued an executive order clarifying that the Constitution doesn't grant automatic citizenship to children of illegal aliens.

Activist judges blocked it.

Now it's up to SCOTUS.
Jan 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
SCOTUS is hearing arguments on a simple Q: Does our Constitution ban states from recognizing the biological differences btwn men and women in sports?

No, it doesn't.

As Chairman of the Subcomm. on the Constitution—& as a dad of two daughters—here is what I am listening for. 🧵 The case today is a consolidation of two cases: one out of West Virginia and one out of Idaho.

Both involve laws protecting fairness in girls’ athletics by basing teams on biological sex at birth. The lower courts got each wrong. SCOTUS must step in.