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20:28:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7239,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.afj.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/SCOTUS-Shortlist-Kethledge-FINAL.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/afj.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/SCOTUS-Shortlist-Kethledge-FINAL.pdf&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<div class=\"tr_bq\">\n<\/div>\n<p>This continues the thumbnails on the potential nominee to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States. <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/president-trumps-scotus-list-part-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1<\/a> had Judge Amy Coney Barrett, GA Justice Keith Blackwell, FL Chief Justice Charles Canady, Judge Steven Colloton, and Judge Allison Eid. As with Part 1, I&#8217;m particularly interested in how these potential nominees will impact gun rights and the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the judges &#8211; Hardiman, Kavanaugh, and Kethledge &#8211; are considered to be short listed. Hardiman who was widely considered the runner-up to Justice Neil Gorsuch and Kethledge were both on the first short list and virtually all mentions of a current short list include Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p><b>Britt Grant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasupreme.us\/court-information\/biographies\/justice-britt-c-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Personal<\/i>:<\/a><br \/>\n40 y.o., married to Justin Grant who worked for the CIA, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/justicebrittgrant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two sons and a daughter<\/a>. Baptist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasupreme.us\/court-information\/biographies\/justice-britt-c-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Current Position<\/i>:<\/a>&nbsp;Associate Justice, Georgia Supreme Court. Appointed in 2017 by Gov. Nathan Deal. Currently also a Trump nominee for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Education:<\/i><br \/>\nWake Forest University, BA Summa Cum Laude, 2000<br \/>\nStanford University Law School, JD, 2007<\/p>\n<p><i>Clerkships:<\/i><br \/>\nJudge Brett M. Kavanaugh, US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, 2007-2008<\/p>\n<p><i>Previous Positions:<\/i><br \/>\nOffice of Rep. Nathan Deal, 2000-2001<br \/>\nExec. Asst. to Director, Domestic Policy Council, The White House, 2001-2002<br \/>\nSpec. Asst to Director, USA Freedom Corps, The White House, 2002-2003<br \/>\nDep. Assoc. Director, Office of Cabinet Affairs, The White House, 2003-2004<br \/>\nAssociate &#8211; Commercial Litigation, Kirkland and Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, 2008-2012<br \/>\nCounsel for Legal Policy, Georgia Attorney General&#8217;s Office, 2012-2014<br \/>\nSolicitor General of Georgia, 2015-2016<\/p>\n<p><i>Judicial Opinions:<\/i><br \/>\nYou can find what she considers her most important decisions in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Grant%20SJQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questionnaire <\/a>that she submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee when she was nominated for a seat on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. More importantly, for our purposes, as Solictor General she joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Friedman-v.-Highland-Park-cert.-amicus-brief-15-133-filing-M0103529xC...-c1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amicus brief<\/a> submitted by 24 states in Friedman v. City of Highland Park asking the US Supreme Court to take the case. This case involved Highland Park&#8217;s assault weapons ban. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court did not grant certiorari. She also successfully litigated a water rights case, <i>Florida v. Georgia<\/i>, that was heard by the Supreme Court under its original jurisdiction which is very, very rare.<\/p>\n<p><i>Opposition:<\/i><br \/>\nThe Alliance for Justice asserts that Grant is an &#8220;elitist&#8221; and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afj.org\/blog\/two-trump-scotus-short-listers-are-unqualified-for-any-federal-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unfit for any Federal judgeship<\/a> due to being too young and inexperienced. One of the things they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Britt-Grant-Full-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">objected<\/a> to was her challenge to ObamaCare. I&#8217;m sure they also object to her <a href=\"https:\/\/fedsoc.org\/contributors\/britt-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activities <\/a>on behalf of The Federalist Society where she has been active since her time in law school.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Raymond W. Gruender<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Personal:<\/i><br \/>\n55 y.o. (this week), married to Judy Gruender, no children. Was the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Archives\/1986\/09\/02\/Man-opens-fire-on-family-kills-self\/8360526017600\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> victim of an attempted murder-suicide<\/a> when his father gathered Gruender and his siblings for a group photo. The father than shot Gruender and his teenage sister before killing himself. <a href=\"http:\/\/socialgospel.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/setting-record-straight-on-justice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Current Position:<\/i><br \/>\nJudge, 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Appointed by Pres. George W. Bush and confirmed May 20, 2004<\/p>\n<p><i>Education:<\/i><br \/>\nWashington University in St. Louis, B.A., 1984<br \/>\nWashington University School of Law, J.D., 1987<br \/>\nWashington University in St. Louis, M.B.A., 1987<\/p>\n<p><i>Previous Positions:<\/i><br \/>\nAssociate, Lewis, Rice and Fingersh, St. Louis, MO, 1987-1990<br \/>\nAssistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, 1990-1994<br \/>\nPartner, Thompson Coburn, St. Louis, MO, 1994-2000<br \/>\nAssistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Missouri,2000-2001<br \/>\nU.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, 2001-2004<\/p>\n<p><i>Judicial Opinions:<\/i><br \/>\nGiven that Judge Gruender has served on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals for a number of years, he has participated in a number of decisions involving abortion, contraception, voting rights, criminal rights, etc. The SCOTUSBlog covers the major ones <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2017\/01\/potential-nominee-profile-raymond-gruender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. With regard to the Second Amendment, there were no notable cases. While he served as US Attorney, he did aggressively prosecute gun violations, presumably felons in possession, in Missouri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrace.org\/2016\/11\/donald-trump-supreme-court-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to former Sen. Kit Bond<\/a> in Gruender&#8217;s confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Opposition<\/i>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afj.org\/scotus-short-list-backgrounds#Gruender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It would seem in reading the opposition comments<\/a> on Gruender that the most significant opposition to him will come from the pro-abortion lobby. In an early decision (2006), he dissented in a case from South Dakota that the 8th Circuit overturned a law requiring the doctor to inform the woman the terminating the pregnancy will end the life of a unique human being. He also wrote the decision that overturned the Missouri law that precluded their DMV from issuing license plates that read &#8220;Choose Life&#8221; on First Amendment grounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Thomas M. Hardiman<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Personal:<\/i><br \/>\n53 y.o. (next week), married to Lori Zappala Hardiman, and has three children. First in his family to attend college and worked as a taxi driver throughout high school and college. His brother-in-law, Stephen Zappala Jr. is the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/alleghenycountyda.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">District Attorney of Allegheny County<\/a>&nbsp;(Pittsburgh), PA. Catholic.<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/hardiman-thomas-michael\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>Current Position<\/a>:<\/i><br \/>\nJudge, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. Nominated by Pres. George W. Bush. Confirmed March 15, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><i>Education:<\/i><br \/>\nUniversity of Notre Dame, B.A., 1987<br \/>\nGeorgetown University Law Center, J.D., Editor, Law Review, 1990<\/p>\n<p><i>Previous Positions:<\/i><br \/>\nAssociate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, Washington, DC, 1990-92<br \/>\nAssociate and Partner, Titus and McConomy, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992-1999<br \/>\nPartner, Reed Smith, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999-2003<br \/>\nJudge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 2003-2007<\/p>\n<p>\n<i>Judicial Opinions:<\/i><br \/>\nHardiman has the strongest record on the Second Amendment of all the potential nominees. He had a strong dissent in <i><a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/us-3rd-circuit\/1640513.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drake v. Filko<\/a><\/i> which challenged New Jersey&#8217;s may-issue carry laws. He said, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/njlawjournal\/almID\/1202614451498\/drake-v-filko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essence<\/a>, &#8220;opining that the majority misreads Heller and McDonald, the Second Amendment applies outside the home, and New Jersey&#8217;s law conditioning issuance of a permit to carry a handgun in public on a showing of justifiable need contravenes the Second Amendment.&#8221; Hardiman also concurred in the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/144549p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Binderup <\/a><\/i>case regarding the denial of the Second Amendment rights to those convicted of non-violent misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/144549p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concurrence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>By contrast, we would<br \/>\nhold\u2014consistent with Heller\u2014that non-dangerous persons<br \/>\nconvicted of offenses unassociated with violence may rebut<br \/>\nthe presumed constitutionality of \u00a7 922(g)(1) on an as-applied<br \/>\nbasis, and that when a law eviscerates the core of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms (as \u00a7 922(g)(1) does<br \/>\nby criminalizing exercise of the right entirely), it is<br \/>\ncategorically unconstitutional.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<i>Opposition:<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afj.org\/scotus-short-list-backgrounds#Hardiman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Alliance for Justice<\/a> noted that Hardiman takes an expansive view of the Second Amendment, that he ruled in favor of the Little Sisters of the Poor in a case involving ObamaCare, and that he was a longtime member of the Federalist Society. While bad in their eyes, sounds good to me. That said, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/1\/30\/14439220\/thomas-hardiman-souter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some on the right<\/a>&nbsp;(RedState&#8217;s Erick Erickson) who think Hardiman will be Souter 2.0 even though he has been reliably conservative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Brett M. Kavanaugh<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brett_Kavanaugh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal<\/a>:<\/i><br \/>\n53 y.o., married to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashley_Estes_Kavanaugh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashley Estes Kavanaugh<\/a> (who was Personal Secretary to Pres. George W. Bush), and has two daughters. Catholic.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/kavanaugh-brett-m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Current Position<\/a>:<\/i><br \/>\nJudge, US Circuit of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Nominated by Pres. George W. Bush. Confirmed May 26, 2006<\/p>\n<p><i>Education:<\/i><br \/>\nYale College, B.A., 1987<br \/>\nYale Law School, J.D., 1990<\/p>\n<p><i>Clerkships:<\/i><br \/>\nJudge Walter K. Stapleton, US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1990-1991<br \/>\nJudge Alex Kosinski, US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1991-1992<br \/>\nJustice Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States, 1993-1994<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"https:\/\/georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov\/infocus\/judicialnominees\/kavanaugh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>Previous Positions<\/a>:<\/i><br \/>\nAttorney, Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1992-1993<br \/>\nAssociate independent counsel, Whitewater investigation, 1994-1997, 1998<br \/>\nPartner, Kirkland and Ellis, Washington, DC, 1997-1998 and 1999-2001<br \/>\nAssociate Counsel to the President, The White House, 2001-2003<br \/>\nSenior Assoc. Counsel to the President, The White House, 2003<br \/>\nAssistant to the President and Staff Secretary, The White House, 2003-2006<\/p>\n<p><i>Scholarship:<\/i><br \/>\nDefense Presence and Participation: A Procedural Minimum for Batson v. Kentucky Hearings, 99 Yale L.J. 187 (1989-1990)<br \/>\nThe President and the Independent Counsel, 86 Geo. L.J. 2133 (1997-1998)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotalawreview.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kavanaugh_MLR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Separation of Powers During the Forty-Fourth Presidency and Beyond<\/a>, 93 Minn. L. Rev. 1454 (2009)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.berkeley.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/&amp;httpsredir=1&amp;article=3177&amp;context=facpubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Dialogue with Federal Judges on the Role of History in Interpretation<\/a>, 80 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1889 (2011-2012)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.nd.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=4554&amp;context=ndlr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our Anchor for 225 Years and Counting: The Enduring Significance of the Precise Text of the Constitution<\/a>, 89 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1907 (2014)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlycommons.law.case.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/&amp;httpsredir=1&amp;article=1135&amp;context=caselrev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Courts and the Administrative State<\/a>, 64 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 711 (2014)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.harvardlawreview.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2118-2163-Online.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fixing Statutory Interpretation<\/a>, 129 Harv. L. Rev. 2118 (2015)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/&amp;httpsredir=1&amp;article=3383&amp;context=lawreview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Judge as Umpire: Ten Principles<\/a>, 65 Cath. U. L. Rev. 683 (2015)<br \/>\nCo-Author, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2tKrwHC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law of Judicial Precedent<\/a>, 2016<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.nd.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=4733&amp;context=ndlr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Challenges for the Judge as Umpire: Statutory Ambiguity and Constitutional Exceptions<\/a>,<br \/>\n92 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1907 (2017)<\/p>\n<p><i>Judicial Opinions:<\/i><br \/>\nIt is <a href=\"https:\/\/empiricalscotus.com\/2017\/12\/07\/the-next-nominee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated <\/a>that Kavanaugh has written well over 275 opinion in his years on the Court of Appeals. He filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=8354949939576611637&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=6&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholarr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dissent <\/a>in Heller II which challenged gun registration and the AWB in DC. Because of the nature of the DC Circuit, Kavanaugh has written many opinions that deal with agencies and regulation. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2018\/06\/potential-nominee-profile-brett-kavanaugh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCOTUSBlog<\/a> says he tends to take a case-by-case approach to administrative law without resorting to a full frontal challenge on Chevron deference. Nonetheless, he has worked to keep the administrative state in check especially with some of the rules promulgated by the Obama-era EPA. The SCOTUSBlog says, &#8220;To Kavanaugh, if Congress has not spoken on a matter of deep economic and political significance, which it had not in this instance, a regulation challenged under the relevant statute is presumed to be invalid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Opposition:<\/i><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afj.org\/scotus-short-list-backgrounds#Kavanaugh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alliance for Justice<\/a> in a bit of hyperbole says that a Kavanaugh nomination would &#8220;threaten the rights of consumers, workers, and immigrants, as well as women\u2019s reproductive rights and protections for clean air and clean water.&#8221; Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation to the DC Circuit was held up for three years due to his being the principal author of the Starr Report which eventually led to Pres. Bill Clinton&#8217;s impeachment (but not conviction). I&#8217;m sure the Clinton true believers will continue to hold this against him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b><br \/>\n<b>Raymond M. Kethledge<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raymond_Kethledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal<\/a>:<\/i><br \/>\n52 y.o., married to Jessica Kethledge, and has both a son and daughter. Outdoorsman who hunts and fishes in Michigan&#8217;s North Woods. Grandfather, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raymond_W._Ketchledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raymond W. Ketchledge<\/a>, helped developed the acoustic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_24_mine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-submarine torpedo<\/a> during WWII.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/kethledge-raymond-m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Current Position<\/a>:<\/i><br \/>\nJudge, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Nominated by Pres. George W. Bush. Confirmed on June 24, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><i>Education:<\/i><br \/>\nUniversity of Michigan, B.A., 1989<br \/>\nUniversity of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1993&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>Clerkships:<\/i><br \/>\nJudge Ralph B. Guy, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1993-1994<br \/>\nJustice Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States, 1997-1998&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>Previous Position<\/i>s:<br \/>\nJudiciary counsel, U.S. Sen. Spencer Abraham, Michigan, 1995-1997<br \/>\nPartner, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz &amp; Cohn, Detroit, MI, 1998-2001<br \/>\nCounsel, Ford Motor Company, 2001-2002<br \/>\nPartner, Feeney, Kellet, Wienner &amp; Bush, Bloomfield, MI, 2002<br \/>\nCo-Founder and Partner, Bush, Seyferth &amp; Paige, Troy, MI, 2003-2008<\/p>\n<p><i>Scholarship:<\/i><br \/>\nU.S. Supreme Court Review: October 1998 Term, 78 Mich. B.J. 1314 (1999)<br \/>\nCo-Author, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KzkifN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude<\/a> (2017)<br \/>\nAmbiguities and Agency Cases: Reflections after (Almost) Ten Years on the Bench,<br \/>\n70 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 315 (2017)<\/p>\n<p><i>Judicial Opinions:<\/i><br \/>\nWith regard to the Second Amendment, the major case Kethledge participated in was an en banc hearing of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/16a0234p-06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tyler v. Hillsdale County Sheriffs Department<\/a><\/i> which found that person who had been committed years earlier had the right to have their gun rights restored. Kethledge joined in a concurring opinion supporting the decision. Other notable decisions by Kethledge include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/14a0071p-06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EEOC v. Kaplan<\/a> in which he wrote the unanimous decision affirming the lower court&#8217;s decision throwing out an expert&#8217;s testimony in a disparate impact case. The Wall Street Journal called it the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raymond_Kethledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opinion of the Year<\/a>. Another notable decision, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/305644886\/6th-Circuit-IRS-Tea-Party-Targeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US v. NorCal Tea Party Patriots<\/a><\/i>, in which he wrote, &#8220;Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their  political views. No citizen\u2014Republican or Democrat, socialist or libertarian\u2014should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds.&#8221; He concluded by noting the IRS&#8217;s attorney were engaged in a selective manner and he expected them to do better.<\/p>\n<p><i>Opposition:<\/i><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afj.org\/scotus-short-list-backgrounds#Kethledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alliance <\/a>for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/SCOTUS-Shortlist-Kethledge-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice <\/a>certainly doesn&#8217;t like Raymond Kethledge. They accuse him of wanting to &#8220;threaten the rights of consumers, workers, and immigrants, as well as women\u2019s reproductive rights and the rights of the accused. He fights for the wealthy and powerful over the rights of all, attacking critical federal agencies that protect workers, consumers and the environment.&#8221; I presume they are angry because Kethledge jacked up the IRS over their treatment of a Tea Party group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This continues the thumbnails on the potential nominee to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[691,892,699,893,894,19,9,895],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brett-kavanaugh","tag-britt-grant","tag-presidential-nominations","tag-raymond-gruender","tag-raymond-kethledge","tag-second-amendment","tag-supreme-court","tag-thomas-hardiman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11495,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/11495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}