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Mike Huckabee Just Said The Dred Scott Decision 'Remains To This Day The Law Of The Land'
Mike Huckabee for months has been peddling a faulty understanding of how the law in America works. The former Arkansas governor insists that unless a local, state, or federal lawmaking body, like your city council or the U.S. Congress, passes a bill and it is signed into law, it isn't law. In other words, everything is illegal unless a law makes it legal.
On top of that false theory, Huckabee insists that the Supreme Court cannot "make laws." So if they strike down a law, say, a ban on same-sex marriage, that does not mean that same-sex marriage is legal.
Some may have bought into this fiddle-faddle, but now Huckabee has pushed his unique version of jurisprudence too far.
"Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford — which held that all blacks, free or enslaved, could not be American citizens — is still the law of the land even though no one follows it," Buzzfeed's Christopher Massie reports today.
Of course, nearly every high school student, and many even younger, know that the 14th Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision.
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/mike_huckabee_just_said_the_dred_scott_decision_remains_to_this_day_the_law_of_the_land
On top of that false theory, Huckabee insists that the Supreme Court cannot "make laws." So if they strike down a law, say, a ban on same-sex marriage, that does not mean that same-sex marriage is legal.
Some may have bought into this fiddle-faddle, but now Huckabee has pushed his unique version of jurisprudence too far.
"Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford — which held that all blacks, free or enslaved, could not be American citizens — is still the law of the land even though no one follows it," Buzzfeed's Christopher Massie reports today.
Of course, nearly every high school student, and many even younger, know that the 14th Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision.
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/mike_huckabee_just_said_the_dred_scott_decision_remains_to_this_day_the_law_of_the_land
While defending Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis’s refusal to issue marriage licenses out of her religious opposition to same-sex marriage, Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford — which held that all blacks, free or enslaved, could not be American citizens — is still the law of the land even though no one follows it. Radio host Michael Medved quickly pointed out to the former governor of Arkansas that the decision was overturned by the 13th Amendment. (Although the 13th Amendment ended slavery, the birthright citizenship clause in the 14th Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision.)
“I’ve been just drilled by TV hosts over the past week, ‘How dare you say that, uh, it’s not the law of the land?’” Huckabee said. “Because that’s their phrase, ‘it’s the law of the land.’ Michael, the Dred Scott decision of 1857 still remains to this day the law of the land which says that black people aren’t fully human. Does anybody still follow the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?”
After correcting Huckabee, Medved then asked the candidate if he would attempt to overturn the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling with a constitutional amendment.
“I don’t think that’s necessary,” Huckabee replied. “Because, in the case of this decision, it goes back to what Jefferson said that if a decision is rendered that is not borne out by the will of the people either through their elected people and gone through the process, if you just say it’s the law of the land because the court decided, then Jefferson said, ‘You now have surrendered to judicial tyranny.’”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/huckabee-dred-scott-decision-remains-to-this-day-the-law-of?utm_term=4ldqpia&bftw=pol#.ywM0y4Wzm
“I’ve been just drilled by TV hosts over the past week, ‘How dare you say that, uh, it’s not the law of the land?’” Huckabee said. “Because that’s their phrase, ‘it’s the law of the land.’ Michael, the Dred Scott decision of 1857 still remains to this day the law of the land which says that black people aren’t fully human. Does anybody still follow the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?”
After correcting Huckabee, Medved then asked the candidate if he would attempt to overturn the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling with a constitutional amendment.
“I don’t think that’s necessary,” Huckabee replied. “Because, in the case of this decision, it goes back to what Jefferson said that if a decision is rendered that is not borne out by the will of the people either through their elected people and gone through the process, if you just say it’s the law of the land because the court decided, then Jefferson said, ‘You now have surrendered to judicial tyranny.’”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/huckabee-dred-scott-decision-remains-to-this-day-the-law-of?utm_term=4ldqpia&bftw=pol#.ywM0y4Wzm
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