Kethledge is a strong conservative, to the right of Roberts, Alito and Gorsuch.
I have never seen so much defamation against a conservative here.
It’s the usual intellectually lazy Bush League conservatism - I know what I want and hey, Jackson, could you bring us another round please.
Cole Porter already wrote their theme song:
(I drink to your health)
Naw, lets drink to your wealth
Your my bon ami
Hey, that’s french
A liberty fraternity
...What a swell party, swell party
Swelligant, elegant party this is!
In 2013, for example, Kethledge sided with an illegal alien who overstayed a tourist visa and then spent the next ten years, while in the country illegally, trying to get an employment visa. Two separate employers filed paperwork that would have allowed the Indian national to remain in the United States, and both times the applications were denied when U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) found the jobs to be bogus. Kethledge ruled, over a dissent by a Bill Clinton-appointed judge, that the alien himself had a right to challenge the determination that the employers did not qualify to keep foreign workers in the country, rather than just the employers themselves.So, Kethledge seems to be implying that an Illegal Alien has similar rights to a citizen here. That's a troubling scenario if true.
Even more troubling for those who prefer an America First interpretation of immigration law, Kethledge’s opinion in Patel v. USCIS expressly rejected the government’s contention that the sole purpose of those laws is to protect American workers and benefit American businesses that need foreign labor in qualifying circumstances where they cannot find Americans. “One can speculate that Congress meant to exclude certain aliens to protect American workers, and admit other, ‘qualified’ aliens to help American employers,” Kethledge wrote. “But there is no basis in the text of the statute—none—to conclude that Congress was completely indifferent to the interests of the ‘qualified immigrants’ themselves.”Here, Kethledge seems to be trying to present himself as a "Textulist", while at the same time legislating from the bench in favor of the Illegal Alien since "But there is no basis in the text of the statute—none—to conclude that Congress was completely indifferent to the interests of the ‘qualified immigrants’ themselves."