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Mike Huckabee compares anti-gay Kentucky clerk jailing to Dred Scott slavery ruling
Today (6 September) anti-marriage equality Republican Mike Huckabee compared Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to abolitionists who once fought the US Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision.
The GOP presidential candidate was a guest on the ABC News show This Week with George Stephanopoulos. The host asked Huckabee to respond to Republicans critical of the Rowan County’s clerk’s decision to ignore a federal judge’s ruling she distribute marriage certificates to LGBTI couples.
The former Arkansas governor compared Davis’ fight to abolitionists who disagreed with the Dred Scott ruling.
‘…You obey it [a court ruling] if it’s right,’ Huckabee said.’ So I go back to my question. 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.’
In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled, in Dred Scott v Stanford, blacks could not be citizens of US states and they were ‘beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.’
The decision also made slavery legal in all of the country’s territories.
Huckabee warned the courts are overstepping boundaries set down by the Founding Fathers.
‘I think what we’ve seen here is the overreach of the judiciary,’ the Republican said. ‘This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what Jefferson warned us about. That’s judicial tyranny.’
Trailing in the polls, Huckabee is sponsoring an event for Davis this week. The ‘#ImWithKim Liberty Rally,’ will be this Tuesday (8 September) in front of the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson, Kentucky.
The 49-year-old Democrat been held in that jail since Thursday. Last month, District Judge David Bunning ordered her to issue certificates to LGBTI applicants. She appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court. The high court denied her emergency request to not issue marriage licenses to any couples – gay or straight – as she fought in the lower court.
Despite losing, Davis continued to defy Bunning’s order. She was held in contempt.
Below is a video of Huckabee’s interview:
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