Raymond Kethledge, one of the finalists President Donald Trump is considering for the Supreme Court, has never explicitly stated his views on abortion or same-sex marriage.
But in April, Kethledge, a judge on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled in favor of Cathedral Buffet, a church-run Ohio restaurant being sued by the government because congregants were allegedly being “spiritually coerced” by their pastor to work without pay. Kethledge went further than his fellow judges in writing that the restaurant’s Catholic affiliation shielded it from federal labor law.
While liberals are working to define the president’s second nomination to the high court as an epic battle over the future of Roe v.