CNN’s Scott Jennings took jabs at Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Saturday calling her a “hack” after the court’s ruling about nationwide injunctions.
CNN’s Abby Phillips mentioned how nationwide injunctions have been “the bane of the existence of democrat and republican presidents,” prompting Jennings to share his thoughts after calling Friday’s ruling a “great day” for President Donald Trump.
“I was trying to sort out my feelings on this matter, and I came up with a quote from a very smart lawyer, and I just want to quote it, because I think she was right when she said it, ‘It just can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks,’” Jennings said on CNN’s “Saturday Morning Table for Five.”
“Justice Elena Kagan in 2022 said that, of course, when we had a Democratic president. Now she voted against the decision on Friday,” the conservative commentator continued. “Just goes to show you that some of these folks really are hacks.”
“It just can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through normal process,” Kagan said during a talk at Northwestern University’s law school.
“I’m glad they went ahead and fixed it because it’s not right that one of these individual district court judges can act like a king or a monarch and stop the elected president from acting,” Jennings continued. (RELATED: ‘We Do Not Elect A Marxist Judge In A Far-Left City To Rule Over Us’: Stephen Miller Praises SCOTUS Ruling)
In the 6-3 ruling, Kagan dissented alongside Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying “Children born in the United States and subject to its laws are United States citizens. That has been the legal rule since the founding, and it was the English rule well before then.”
“The Government does not ask for complete stays of the injunctions, as it ordinarily does before this Court. Why? The answer is obvious: To get such relief, the Government would have to show that the Order is likely constitutional, an impossible task in light of the Constitution’s text, history, this Court’s precedents, federal law, and Executive Branch practice,” the dissent continued. “So the Government instead tries its hand at a different game. It asks this Court to hold that, no matter how illegal a law or policy, courts can never simply tell the Executive to stop enforcing it against anyone.”
Friday’s ruling was connected to three lawsuits in which judges granted nationwide injunctions against the executive order Trump signed on his first day back in office that would end birthright citizenship in the U.S.
