Huckabee Invokes Dred Scott While Defending Kim Davis
Mike Huckabee has made it abundantly clear that he supports gay-marriage protesting clerk Kim Davis. Yesterday, Huckabee spoke about defending Davis on Michael Medved‘s radio show, where he compared the situation to the Supreme Court decision that upheld slavery.
Huckabee began the segment by reaffirming his disagreement with same-sex marriage, and his position that the nationwide allowance provided by Obergefell v. Hodges was invalid until state lawmakers made it part of their legislation.
“I’ve been just drilled by TV hosts over the past week, ‘How dare you say that it’s not the law of the land?’” Huckabee said. “Because that’s their phrase, ‘it’s the law of the land.’ 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 corrected Huckabee by saying the ruling was overturned by the 13th Amendment (it was actually the 14th) when birthright citizenship was established across the country. When asked if he would push for a constitutional amendment to address Obergefell as president, Huckabee stated that that wouldn’t be necessary:
“If a decision is rendered that is not borne out by the will of the people either through their elected people and gone through the process, if you just say it’s the law of the land because the court decided, then Jefferson said, ‘You now have surrendered to judicial tyranny.'”
You can listen to the audio below:
[h/t Buzzfeed]
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