As President, Mike Huckabee Would Ignore The Supreme Court Because "It Isn't The Supreme Being"
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee demonstrated why he doesn't have a sliver of a chance at winning next year's election on an episode of Fox News Sunday last night by insisting that, as president, he'd have the authority to ignore a Supreme Court ruling against same-sex marriage bans in America.
The 59-year-old former Arkansas governor stirred controversy in January when he opined that a Supreme Court ruling in favor of nationwide marriage equality would be a form of "judicial supremacy," and that states would be free to continue banning same-sex marriage regardless of its upcoming decision on the matter.
Reminded by Fox News host Chris Wallace that the United States has "operated under the principle of judicial review since the Marbury v. Madison case in 1803," Huckabee stood firm in his position.
"You seemed to indicate that as president, you wouldn't necessarily obey court rulings, even the Supreme Court," said Wallace.
Said Huckabee:
"Presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law, they cannot make it, the legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it, and the notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government.
The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God’s sake, it isn't the Supreme Being.
Asked whether he would disobey a ruling on desegregation, Huckabee insisted the two subjects were not similar because in the case of desegregation, all three branches of government agreed.
h/t Raw Story
