GOP Senator on Fox: Justice Jackson ‘Mad as a Bag of Cats’ at SCOTUS Ruling – And That’s a ‘Good Thing’
Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy said he’s “proud” of the Supreme Court for a decision handed down on Friday that he said must be good for the American people because it made Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson so angry.
Speaking with anchor Harris Faulkner on the latest episode of Fox’s Faulkner Focus, after multiple decisions were handed down by the Supreme Court that infuriated the left, Kennedy highly praised a ruling in a birthright citizenship case.
In a 6–3 ruling, the court on Friday gutted lower court injunctions against executive orders issued by President Donald Trump. Faulkner noted to Kennedy that it wouldn’t just be the birthright citizenship EO affected by the court’s decision.
“So this has bigger implications than just that one topic of birthright citizenship,” said Faulkner. “Your reaction to this?”
“The Supreme Court has turned the universal injunctions into fish food, as well it should have,” said Kennedy. “There’s no basis in statute. There’s no basis in Supreme Court precedent. There is no basis in English common law for universal injunctions.”
He continued, saying that, “Judges who just dislike what Congress and a president, any president, has done, just made them up. And good riddance. I’m proud of the Supreme Court.”
He then referenced a dissent from Justice Jackson that has been a widely discussed topic since the decisions were handed down.
“It’s a very extensive ruling. You can tell it from Justice Jackson’s dissent,” he said. “She’s mad as a bag of cats, and that’s probably a good thing for the American people.”
After looking at Trump’s Truth Social post on the subject, Faulkner prompted Kennedy to elaborate, and he explained that they didn’t rule on birthright citizenship itself, but on the “illegal” practice of universal injunctions that “federal judges just made up.”
“You know, if they disagree, you know, I’m sorry. Fill out a hurt feelings report. Buy a comfort rock,” Kennedy said. “But they can’t just say, I disagree and I’m putting the entire action by another branch of government on hold because I don’t like it.” Below is their full exchange:
KENNEDY: Well, number one, the Supreme Court did not rule on birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court ruled on universal injunctions. As I said, they turned universal injuctions into fish food. They should have. We have three equal branches of government. One of those is the judicial system. They’re equal. They’re not superior. They don’t get to rewrite congressional actions or presidential actions every other Thursday because they don’t agree with them. That’s just not the way our founders intended it. And I’m proud of the I’m proud of The Supreme Court today.
FAULKNER: Let me ask you about those judges across the country and how it would seem — and they would have to defend against this because it certainly appears in many instances that this is continuing to be lawfare against the current president, and it’s not supposed to be that way. I mean, the scales of justice are not supposed tip politically one way or the other. Why do you think we’re seeing what we’re seeing against Trump?
KENNEDY: Well, both sides have abused it, and by it I mean universal injunctions. The Democrats more than the Republicans, but both sides of abused it. And it’s illegal. There’s no basis for it in law. And I’ve just been waiting for the Supreme Court to do this.
I mean, anybody who knows a law book from an L.L. Bean catalog knows that federal judges just made up this concept of universal injunctions. There’s no basis in statute, no basis is Supreme Court precedent, there’s no bases in English common law. They just made it up because they don’t agree with what a president or congress has done.
You know, if they disagree, you know, I’m sorry. Fill out a hurt feelings report. Buy a comfort rock. But they can’t just say, I disagree, and I’m putting the entire action by another branch of government on hold because I don’t like it. And that’s what they’ve been doing. And they’re not the superior branch of the government. They’re an equal branch of a government.
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