Whether Jennings v. Stephens allows an appellee to expand the certificate of appealability and urge affirmance of a district court denial of a habeas corpus petition on an issue that the district court expressly did not address without an appellee having to take a cross appeal?

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW In United States v. American Railway Express Co., 265 U.S. 425, 435 (1924), this Court held that an appellee need not cross appeal in order to urge affirmance of the judgment based on a reason appearing on the record even if it attacks the reasoning of the lower court. In Jennings v. Stephens, 135 S. Ct. 793 (2015), this Court applied American Railway in the habeas corpus context and held that an appellee need not cross-appeal and need not get a certificate of appealability to urge affirmance based on an issue rejected by the district court. This petition presents the following question: Whether Jennings v. Stephens allows an appellee to expand the certificate of appealability and urge affirmance of a district court denial of a habeas corpus petition on an issue that the district court expressly did not address without an appellee having to take a cross appeal? i INTERESTED PARTIES There are no