Huckabee: Dred Scott Decision 'Remains To This Day The Law Of The Land'
Source: TPM
Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Wednesday that the Supreme Court decision that upheld slavery "remains to this day the law of the land."
Huckabee appeared on conservative radio host Michael Medved's show to defend Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who went to jail for contempt of court after refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses. The former governor compared the Supreme Court's recent decision to legalize same sex marriage to the Dred Scott decision, which upheld slavery.
Michael, the Dred Scott decision of 1857 still remains to this day the law of the land which says that black people arent fully human," he told the radio host. "Does anybody still follow the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?
Medved corrected Huckabee, noting that the Dred Scott ruling was later overturned by a constitutional amendment. Well the Dred Scott decision was overturned by the 13th amendment and if you go look at the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 right after the Dred Scott decision was adjudicated, Governor and seriously its right there Lincoln says, we must respect this decision as the will of the court but I think it was wrongly decided and now we must overcome it."
(Medved got his history wrong the 13th amendment abolished slavery, but the 14th amendment overturned the Supreme Court decision.)
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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mike-huckabee-dred-scott-still-law
Audio at link
MBS
(9,688 posts)angryvet
(181 posts)get a book and read it to him. I'm beginning to think the man is brain damaged.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)msongs
(67,404 posts)louis-t
(23,292 posts)I wonder if he'll try to walk this one back.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)to them he's a holy rollin' genius.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Hell never get caught up in his stupidity, because he is a relative genius.
wcmagumba
(2,886 posts)OMG-What an idiot. He just wishes it were still the law...racist, homophobic jerk and patriarch to evil dog killers....
modrepub
(3,495 posts)Huckabee has any idea that this case galvanized Northern sentiment against slavery and catapulted the Republican Party to victory in the 1860 election? Nah, he has no clue.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)a more shamelessly opportunistic, stupid, and unAmerican slate of candidates running for the republican presidential nomination? I thought it couldn't get any worse after GW Bush. Boy was I wrong.
MBS
(9,688 posts)The CCC
(463 posts)Too stupid for words.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I thought he wanted to be President
but I guess he's running for King of Stupid.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)One of them told me Chisholm v. Georgia was still good law. Chisholm v. Georgia was overturned by the 11th Amendment, but that's beside the point. A fairly common Sovereign Citizen (SOVCIT) belief is that the first nine amendments - NOT the first 10 which were all ratified on the same day in a batch, but just One through Nine - are the only ones that are valid.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Huckabee would in all likelihood have ended his political career as an obscure lieutenant governor if Ken Starr hadn't been hell-bent on bringing anyone associated with Bill Clinton down during his witch hunts. Starr honed in on Arkansas' Democratic governor at the time, Jim Guy Tucker, and found a couple of chronic liars to testify against Tucker, resulting in Tucker's ouster and Huckabee's ascension to the governorship. Starr never would have done that if the lieutenant governor at the time had been a Democrat.
ReallyIAmAnOptimist
(357 posts)...and confirmation bias took it from there.
Serious frontal lobe impairment...
happyslug
(14,779 posts)Two other Justices (Wayne and Campbell) agreed with Taney but then wrote the own concurrence with that opinion.
One other opinion had another Justice concur with it rather then Taney's opinion (Nelson and Grier) but even there you had a slight disagreement on WHY Scot was still a slave.
As to the two dissenting Justice, they could not agree on a single opinion either.
I bring this up for while slavery was abolished by the 13th amendment and made it clear that African Americas were CITIZENS by the 14th. Taney in his opinion ruled that African Americas were NOT citizens at the time of the signing of the Constitution and as such were never citizens of the US. As non-citizens African Americans had no right to sue in US Courts.
Thus which opinion was over turned by the 13th and 14th amendments? The accepted answer it Taney's opinion, but the other opinions were also factors. Just a comment on Dred Scot.
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)we shouldn't be surprised - though Huckabee's level of denial is impressive.
I've thought all along that the attack on it really isn't about "birthright" citizenship but a way to go after the equal protection clause.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)And then we have to spend time and money correcting/refuting it. They win by being stupid and dishonest.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)...or his supporters are.
47of74
(18,470 posts)The same 1850s where people owned other human beings.
Fuck him.
Double fuck him in fact.
Archae
(46,327 posts)He wants to pander to the "Impeach the Supreme Court" John Birchers/Teabaggers.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Who will be the biggest douchebag for the Republican party next year?
Tune in tomorrow to hear even more dumb things the latest contestants will say in a pitiful rush spiraling down in to the sewer!!