Conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings ripped liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kegan as a partisan hack for opposing the elimination of nationwide injunctions – despite wanting to end the practice when President Biden was in power.
Jennings called out Kagan – one of three dissenters in Friday’s historic Supreme Court ruling that prevents district court judges from interfering with a president’s agenda – for previously and publicly slamming the widespread abuse of nationwide injunctions during a Democratic presidency.
“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,” the political commentator quipped on CNN’s “Saturday Morning Table for Five.”
“‘It just can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks.’ Justice Elena Kagan in 2022 said that, of course, when we had a democratic president. Now she voted against the decision on Friday.
“Just goes to show you that some of these folks really are hacks.”
The lefty justice made the comment at a Northwestern University law school talk three years ago.
Kagan told the audience that “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 the normal process.”
Jennings called the 6-3 ruling a “great day” for Trump after host Abby Phillips remarked how nationwide injunctions have “been sort of the bane of existence” for both Democratic and Republican presidents.
“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 added.
President Trump has been slapped with at least 25 national injunctions on everything from spending reforms to education policy and deportation policies in the first five months of his second term in the White House.
Kagan’s liberal peers, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, also voted along ideological lines to reject the high court decision.
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