‘Mad As A Bag Of Cats’: John Kennedy Says Lib Justice Must Be Seething After Major SCOTUS Ruling

Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said on Friday that Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in a major decision shows she is upset.

Jackson issued a scathing dissent in response to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision that barred district courts’ abilities to issue universal injunctions to block President Donald Trump’s policies. Kennedy, who celebrated the high court’s decision, said on “The Faulkner Focus” that Jackson’s ire toward the ruling is likely “a good thing for the American people.”

“The Supreme Court has turned the universal injunctions into fish food, as well it should have. There is no basis in statute, there’s no basis in Supreme Court precedent, there’s no basis in English common law for universal injunctions. Judges who just dislike what Congress or the president or any president has done, and good riddance. I’m very proud of the Supreme Court. It’s a very extensive ruling, you can tell it from Justice Jackson’s dissent. She is mad as a bag of cats and that’s probably a good thing for the American people,” Kennedy said.

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Trump issued the “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” executive order on his first day in office in January, which ends the inherent birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants or migrants on temporary visas. Three lower courts blocked the order through a universal injunction, leading the administration to appeal to the Supreme Court in April.

Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the majority’s opinion