Both the Biden administration and a longtime illegal alien who claimed he mistakenly checked a box on a driver license application falsely indicating he was a U.S. citizen told the Supreme Court this morning that a federal appeals court erred when it ruled deportation should proceed. How the high court rules in this case could create a 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. Scheduled for 60 minutes, the hearing lasted 92 minutes. Pankajkumar S. Patel is a citizen of India who has resided in the United States for close to 30 years after entering the country unlawfully in February 1992. He is married to co-petitioner Jyotsnaben P. Patel and …