Mike Huckabee: Dred Scott decision ‘is still the law of the land’ regardless of 14th Amendment

[Galraedia]

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee argued on Wednesday that the 1857 Supreme Court ruling which declared that blacks did not have a right to be citizens was “still the law of the land” even though the 14th Amendment overturned it.

During an interview with radio host Michael Medved that was obtained by BuzzFeed, the former Arkansas governor complained that he had been “drilled by TV hosts” after claiming that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis did not have an obligation to issue same-sex marriage licenses because the Supreme Court’s recent decision on marriage equality was not “the law of the land” until lawmakers codified it with legislation.

“Because that’s their phrase, ‘it’s the law of the land,'” Huckabee explained. “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?”

Medved reminded the candidate that the 13th Amendment had overturned slavery. And as BuzzFeed’s Christopher Massie noted, the 14th Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by establishing birthright citizenship.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/mike-huckabee-dred-scott-decision-is-still-the-law-of-the-land-regardless-of-14th-amendment

[SummerSnow]

1. The GOP plan...deport/exile/enslave all non whites

[procon]

2. He's a loon.

He's deep fried nuts with a heaping side order of extra crispy stoopid. \

Huckabee should stick with proselytizing and leave the legalese and the business of government to those who have at least two firing neurons in their braincase.

[DirkGently]

3. Huckabee really works hard at his wacky logic.

The thing he said to defend Hobby Lobby denying its employees reproductive insurance coverage was a sort of masterpiece of vile insinuations woven into stupendous dishonesty.

"If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it," Huckabee said. "Let's take that discussion all across America."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/01/23/huckabee-dems-think-women-cant-control-their-libido/