Too bad about Kethledge, if that's true. How is Hardiman on immigration? Any cases? One Second Amendment case involving Hardiman looks good.
Binderup v. AG;ATF
http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/144549p.pdf
On Kavanaugh so far...
‘America First’ SCOTUS Choice: Judge Brett Kavanaugh Applies Trump’s Economic Patriotism to the Law (details on Kavanaugh's anti-illegal-immigration decisions behind the Brietbart link)
Brietbart by John Binder
4 Jul 2018
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Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in the running to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, appears to share President Trump’s views on immigration and protecting the American worker."
Brett Kavanaugh: Trump’s Double Down SCOTUS Pick [Kavanaugh's decisions against illegal immigration]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3668818/posts
Empirical SCOTUS blog sees Brett Kavanaugh as likely SCOTUS nomineeABA Journal, American Bar Association ^ | December 12, 2017 | Debra Cassens Weiss
Kavanaugh would be attractive to conservatives because of positions he took on two hot-button issues: gun rights and abortion.
Kavanaugh dissented when the appeals court rejected a challenge to a Washington, D.C., ban on assault weapons enacted after the Supreme Court found an individual right to own guns under the Second Amendment. Kavanaugh also dissented when the full D.C. Circuit required the U.S. government to allow an abortion for a 17-year-old immigrant who was being held in a shelter because she is in the country illegally.
(Excerpt) Read more at
abajournal.com ...
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/DECA496973477C748525791F004D84F9/%24file/10-7036-1333156.pdf#page=46
[Excerpt:]
“KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judge, dissenting:...In my view, Heller and McDonald leave little doubt that courts are to assess gun bans and regulations based on text, history, and tradition, not by a balancing test such as strict or intermediate scrutiny.”