Lawyers for both the Biden administration and a longtime illegal alien who falsely stated he was a U.S. citizen on a driver’s license application told a skeptical Supreme Court on Dec. 6 that a federal appeals court erred when it ruled a deportation order against the man should be allowed to stand. How the high court rules in this case could create a legal standard regarding how much, if any, discretion judges have in cases in which aliens are seeking green cards. The appeal at hand is Patel v. Garland, court file 20-979, which comes from an Aug. 19, 2020, ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The hearing, which was dominated largely by discussions of the meanings of legal terminology, lasted 92 minutes, exceeding the allotted hour. Pankajkumar S. Patel is a citizen of India who has resided in the United States since entering the …