Huck: Trump Should Ignore Travel Ban Ruling, Like Jackson With Trail Of Tears

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MARCH 16, 2017, 10:37 AM EDT

President Donald Trump may want to avoid taking legal advice from former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

After a federal judge on Wednesday ordered a hold on Trump’s revised travel ban, Huckabee urged the President to ignore the ruling, citing Andrew Jackson’s refusal to enforce an 1832 Supreme Court decision affirming the sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation. Jackson rejected the decision in Worcester v. Georgia, leading to the forcible expulsion of some 15,000 Cherokee from Georgia along the Trail of Tears. Some 4,000 died on that journey.

According to Huckabee, this is a solid historical precedent.

Link to tweet

That is a misquotation of a remark, believed to be apocryphal, that Jackson made about Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall’s ruling in Worcester v. Georgia: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it."



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[ck4829]

1. Make Genocide Great Again

[TBA]

2. Now we know the true meaning of MAGA

Make America Genocide Again

[bigbrother05]

9. Amazing, blew right past FDR & Internment to Andy Jackson & Ethnic Cleansing

Didn't think it was possible to be more disgusted with the dredges of the GOP, but as a member of the Cherokee Nation, I weep for my country.

[potone]

16. Wow! I am sorry; this must be especially painful for you.

This administration is worse than I ever imagined was possible. We must, and will, resist!

[Kimchijeon]

28. It is just awful, I agree.

Every time I think they have hit rock bottom they break out the shovels. I guess I should stop being surprised.

[Coventina]

22. Beat me to it. Open advocacy for genocide. I no longer know my country.

[GusFring]

3. Couldn't the writer just use Untrue instead of apocryphal? I had too google. Nt

[lark]

5. Hey, I like it when people use not so common words.

It keeps the discourse more interesting. Yes, I'm a word geek, I'll admit it.

[GusFring]

8. I would say its good that it gave me a new word, but I will never use it. LOL

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. It's in fairly wide use

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=apocryphal&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com

About 2,370 results on DU - that'll include the religious meaning of "about the Apocrypha".

[lagomorph777]

11. "Apocryphal" means "old and successful lie,"

as opposed to a fresh one.

[lark]

4. Huckabee is yet another Repug who is a traitor to the constitution and country.

Yeah, fat Mike, let's jut provoke war within the country by having different military forces fighting each other over this. So, the state calls in the National Guard to oust the ICE idiots and then what happens? Drumpf would sic the military on them post haste, what would they do? Does fat mike think for one second before prescribing treachery for Drumpf? Thinking minds guess - no way.

[trusty elf]

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[Leghorn21]

7. A hearty "FU" to this sicko - "just when you think you've heard it all" - cheezus - but he brings

up a point I read a couple months back about dictators destroying the courts..."they can make all the 'decisions' they want to - but they can't ENFORCE them".

Oh crap, I thought, what a naive American I am. Free press and courts destroyed: game over...and this is how courts are made irrelevant..."ignore them and they'll go away"

Well anyway, fuck you huckster and shame shame shame on you

[Javaman]

10. WTF?? nt

[lunasun]

12. What a nasty holy roller

[NastyRiffraff]

13. Like Dump needs encouragement

He already dreams of a dictatorship; the Huckster only offers encouragement to grap what he wants.

[MurrayDelph]

14. I am old-enough to remember

when Mike Huckabee was better at pretending to be an actual reasonable human being. But that was when he was trying to promote a diet book.

Now his desperate attempts for right-wing relevance man he's good from being a man of God to being a man of God-dammit-look-at-me. He's become a Cracker Ann Coulter.

[christx30]

17. So if trump takes this (horrible) advice,

and some airports/areas don't want to comply with Trump's order, what can trump do? Fire the CBP agents that refuse to against a federal court ruling?
This really does tie trumps hands.

Though I would kind of like to see Federal Marshals enforce the ruling against trump.

[bigbrother05]

19. Go back to his local preacher days in Texarkana, AR/TX

his televised service was on the local station. His wife's production company, built from that beginning, was paid with campaign funds for all of his ads. Pretty sure that's how his daughter got her start in the PR business.

[Cryptoad]

18. Can the POTUS ,,,,

be jailed for Contempt of Court?

Might need to get down to Wally World and buy some more ammo!

[yurbud]

20. Jackson got away with it because a lot of average people thought they would benefit

that they would get some of the stolen Indian land.

The right's emotional investment in this travel ban is somewhere between watching professional wrestling and watching a lynching.

If it gets too complicated, they'll lose interest.

I've found this true when talking to righties about illegal immigration and affirmative action. If you get much deeper than the knee jerk reaction, their eyes glass over.

[Democrats_win]

21. Stop telling us it's raining if you're just peeing.

Trump's travel ban is so dumb. It doesn't include Pakistan and Saudi Arabia! WTF!
This proves Trump is just another phony politician. He, like Bush, isn't really doing anything--maybe he's even harming us.
So much for the so-called businessman.


People from the six banned countries have not attacked us. HOW STUPID ARE YOU DRUMPF, HUCK?

[Beartracks]

23. Huckabee the Godly cites Trail of Tears as good precedent?

May God forgive you, minister. I'm not certain Americans will.

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[tclambert]

24. Great example. One of America's proudest moments.

Maybe he should establish internment camps for all the Muslims in America, too, you know, like we did with Japanese during WWII.

[Grins]

25. "I'll ignore it..."

"...ignore it and let the court enforce their order." - The strip-mall Ezekiel.

Ignore the Court. Do we have to go over what constitutes grounds for impeachment, again?

[Abu Pepe]

26. federal courts have US Marshall's to enforce their rulings

If TSA and immigration employees want to go to jail for contempt they can follow Trump's illegal orders.

[KingCharlemagne]

27. Mentalities like Huckabee's are one reason Commies support the uitility of

the gulag.