Alford Embry

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Alford Embry seeks leave to file a successive motion to vacate or lower his sentence. See 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Invoking Johnson v. United States, — U.S.-, 135 S.Ct. 2551, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), which voided for vagueness the residual clause of a sentencing statute (the Armed Career Criminal Act), he claims a right to relief because the district court treated him as a career offender under an identically worded clause of the Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)). In one sense, there is something to be said for his request. For United States v. Pawlak, 822…