Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) warned his colleagues in the Senate that the passage of a judicial ethics bill would be "dangerous" and a "court-killing machine" on Thursday. His comments came after Senate Democrats passed the bill out of committee.

The bill, which would require the Supreme Court to create a code of ethics, was passed along party lines by the Senate Judiciary Committee. If passed by the full Senate, the bill would force the court to establish a group to investigate alleged violations of the code of conduct and other laws and improve transparency when a justice has a connection to a party before the court.

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"You don't have to be ‘Oliver Wendell Scalia’ to figure out that this legislation is meant to be a court-killing machine," Kennedy claimed, according to Fox News. "It would allow any jackaloon out there in America in a tinfoil hat, whose own dog thinks he’s an utter nutter, to file a motion to recuse a United States Supreme Court Justice."

The law would require that Supreme Court justices explain why they have recused themselves from a case.

The bill was co-sponsored by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) after a series of reports in recent months claimed Supreme Court justices allegedly accepted luxury gifts and were making money through their offices. Durbin has also held Judiciary Committee hearings on Supreme Court ethics.

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"We just advanced Supreme Court ethics reform out of the Senate Judiciary Committee," Durbin tweeted Thursday. "Chief Justice Roberts failed to act on ethics reform before adjourning the Supreme Court for the summer. I said from the beginning: if the Court won’t act, Congress will."

The bill will now advance to the Senate, where it will need 60 votes to pass. Kennedy warned on Wednesday, however, that the bill will be "dead as a fried chicken" if it reaches the Senate floor.