Raymond Kethledge

Raymond Kethledge is being considered to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Justice Anthony Kennedy's resignation. He currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Judge Kethledge is not pro-life. He joined a decision that favorably cited a precedent censoring a pro-life advertisement, and held against allowing a Christian advertisement too. Am. Freedom Def. Initiative v. Suburban Mobility Auth. for Reg'l Transp., 698 F.3d 885 (6th Cir. 2012).

Judge Kethledge is not pro-Second Amendment either. He refused to join a concurring opinion by conservative Judge Danny Boggs that sought to strengthen the Second Amendment by establishing a "strict scrutiny" standard of review for laws that infringe on it. Tyler v. Hillsdale Cnty. Sheriff's Dep't, 837 F.3d 678, 702 (6th Cir. 2016) (Boggs, J., concurring). In February Justice Clarence Thomas complained about judges failing to use strict scrutiny, as Kethledge filed to do in 2016.

Kethledge would be more liberal than Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.