High from his “freedom rally” with Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis, Republican Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee weighed in on the Dred Scott decision—because when you’re wrong, be wrong about everything.
During a radio interview on Wednesday with host Michael Medved, Huckabee took it upon himself to give his listeners an entirely inaccurate history lesson, saying the 1857 Supreme Court ruling, where blacks were declared as not whole humans, is still a law even though no one upholds it. From BuzzFeed:
“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.’ 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. Does anybody still follow the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?”
The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court was overturned by the Civil War; the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; and the 14th Amendment, which gave citizenship to African Americans. The Dred Scott decision is clearly no longer the law of this land. I should add though that the prevalence of police violence against people of color, high incarceration rates and the need for movements like Black Lives Matter is proving Huckabee, dumb as he is, a bit right, though on paper he is still totally incorrect.
And then Huckabee said some more dumb stuff about whether he’d try to overturn gay marriage, which is also legal in these here United States of America, according to the Supreme Court’s ruling in June.