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 aren’t 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 it’s 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.)
The host asked Huckabee if he became president whether he would try to overturn the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision with a constitutional amendment.
“I don’t think that’s necessary,” Huckabee told the radio host because it is a decision, “not borne out by the will of the people either through their elected people and gone through the process.”
Listen to a clip of the interview via Buzzfeed:
Huck is one dumb fuck.
So, in just about any other time in history, such statements would disqualify a candidate from ever becoming President. Of course, this is somewhat academic, because Huckabee will Never become president.
Remember all the proud talk of what a deep bench first team the GOP was fielding this year?
Constitutional scholar and Presidential pretzel-twister Mike Hucka-(fill in the blank) says some more stupid shit. Audio on file. Refer back to it whenever necessary if you seriously need more convincing.
Oh, those humanists… I suppose they are going to say something about “facts” over the word of the “Mythical Sky Boss”.
Secularism has haunted America for 6000 years…