Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that court orders should be obeyed — if they are right.
Huckabee had expressed his support for Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
“Doesn’t she have to the duty to obey a legal order from the court?” “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos asked Huckabee.
“Well, you obey it if it’s right,” Huckabee said.
“So I go back to my question,” Huckabee continued. “Is slavery the law of the land? Should it have been the law of the land because Dred Scott said so? Was that a correct decision? Should the courts have been irrevocably followed on that? Should Lincoln have been put in jail? Because he ignored it.”
Phenomenal how incredibly illogical and stupid one can be when they have absolutely no understanding of constitutional law… and feel that they can just make crap up!
Would Huck defend someone working at the Department of Motor Vehicles who refused to issue driver licenses because they feared the recipient might drive on Sunday?
Do guys like Huckabee ever think through the consequences of what they say? If one’s obligation to obey the law only applies when it’s “right”, who decides when that is? In our system of government, the courts have the ultimate say as to what is or is not Constitutionally permitted and, more generally, how to interpret the laws. If Huckabee truly believes that each individual gets to make that decision on his or her own, they he should move out of the country and find that mythical country that agrees with him. That way leads to anarchy.
maybe Lincoln should’ve been arrested… ignoring Dred Scott wasn’t the only unconstitutional thing he did… suppression of the press… suspension of habeas corpus among other things…
what you’re trying to argue is do the ends justify the means… either that or you trying to re-argue the case for slavery…
if you want to make case for ‘justice’ thru civil disobedience knock yourself out but this isn’t a case of the President ignoring the Supreme Court… this is a case of a faux christian trying to impose her ‘religion’ on the rest of us…
What a surprise Huck’s going to get at the Pearly Gates. God may have a very different opinion of this knucklehead.