CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip may have decided to try something new on Friday by taking her roundtable of panelists to the set of the Food Network, but one thing that remained the same was MRC Bulldog Award winner Scott Jennings triggering his liberal colleagues. This time, Jennings argued Trump had the “best week or two weeks” of his term, punctuated by the Supreme Court’s ruling that limited the power of lower courts to issue nationwide injunctions.
Phillip had more of a statement than a question when she declared, “I mean, this is obviously very controversial, partly because, in addition to all of this, it just opens the door to Donald Trump just going crazy in terms of executive orders. He can issue an executive order today and will, likely, he said so today, and he knows that the lower courts cannot carte blanche stop him, which hugely increases the power of the executive.”
Jennings began by observing Trump and Republicans are feeling good, “Yeah. Look, this is a great week for him, not just because of this ruling, but earlier in the week, the Supreme Court handed him the ruling on being able to deport illegal immigrants to third-party countries, essentially. So, he's on a little bit of a winning streak in the courts right now. And, you know what, a lot of Republicans are saying is, ‘Nope, we're not tired of winning yet.’ This happened. The stock market's at a record high. He brokered the ceasefire in the 12-Day War. Peace broke out between Rwanda and the Congo. I mean, gas prices are at a four-year low for the summer.”
In Jennings’s opinion, the Supreme Court injunction ruling was the most important, “I mean win after win after win, and this particular one, it is the most important because these individual judges had been, I think, unfairly stopping the president from governing. He won the election, they did, and we don't have 600 presidents. We have one president, and now he's going to be able to actually govern. And so you could make an argument that this week or the last two weeks, the best week or two weeks of his entire presidency.”
Former Obama and Biden staffer Ashley Allison wasn’t a fan. Alluding to Jennings’s past work for Sen. Mitch McConnell, she quipped, “It doesn't mean it's good for America, but a couple of things. One, this is why in Trump 1.0, getting those justices on the Supreme Court were so important, your former boss preventing Barack Obama, some might say unfairly, from getting his nomination in contradiction of what he did when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But this is -- elections have consequences. Today was a victory for Donald Trump.”
She then further warned that Republicans are likely to hypocritically lament the Court’s decision the next time a Democrat becomes president, assuming there is a next time, “But here's the thing, if we follow the Constitution, which I don't know if this man will, in three years, he won't be the president anymore, three-and-a-half years, he won't be the president anymore. And that same ruling could apply to a Democratic judge. And so when DACA comes out or other student loan debt comes out and your side is going to try and put an injunction, I don't want to hear, ‘Oh my God, the executive is overreaching.’”
Podcaster Mike Leon agreed, “You're going to hear it,” and Allison reiterated, “Yes. But that's the hypocrisy of it.”
Maybe so, but that only proves the hyperventilating from the left is simply hysteria. The Supreme Court is still in the business of resolving controversies, and Donald Trump will leave office in January 2029.
Here is a transcript for the June 27 show:
CNN NewsNight
6/27/2025
10:04 PM ET
ABBY PHILLIP: I mean, this is obviously very controversial, partly because, in addition to all of this, it just opens the door to Donald Trump just going crazy in terms of executive orders. He can issue an executive order today and will, likely, he said so today, and he knows that the lower courts cannot carte blanche stop him, which hugely increases the power of the executive.
SCOTT JENNINGS: Yeah. Look, this is a great week for him, not just because of this ruling, but earlier in the week, the Supreme Court handed him the ruling on being able to deport illegal immigrants to third- party countries, essentially. So, he's on a little bit of a winning streak in the courts right now. And, you know what, a lot of Republicans are saying is, “Nope, we're not tired of winning yet.” This happened. The stock market's at a record high. He brokered the ceasefire in the 12-Day War. Peace broke out between Rwanda and the Congo. I mean, gas prices are at a four-year low for the summer.
I mean win after win after win, and this particular one, it is the most important because these individual judges had been, I think, unfairly stopping the president from governing. He won the election, they did, and we don't have 600 presidents. We have one president, and now he's going to be able to actually govern. And so you could make an argument that this week or the last two weeks, the best week or two weeks of his entire presidency.
ASHLEY ALLISON: It doesn't mean it's good for America, but a couple of things. One, this is why in Trump 1.0, getting those justices on the Supreme Court were so important, your former boss preventing Barack Obama, some might say unfairly, from getting his nomination in contradiction of what he did when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But this is -- elections have consequences. Today was a victory for Donald Trump.But here's the thing, if we follow the Constitution, which I don't know if this man will, in three years, he won't be the president anymore, three-and-a-half years, he won't be the president anymore. And that same ruling could apply to a Democratic judge. And so when DACA comes out or other student loan debt comes out and your side is going to try and put an injunction, I don't want to hear, “Oh my God, the executive is overreaching.”
MIKE LEON: You're going to hear it.
ALLISON: Yes. But that's the hypocrisy of it.
