http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/10/1420148/-Mike-Huckabee-Dred-Scott-is-to-this-day-the-law-of-the-land?detail=email
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee doesn't know that the infamous Dred Scott decision denying citizenship to black Americans is not, in fact, currently "the law of the land."
“I’ve been just drilled by TV hosts over the past week, ‘How dare you say that, uh, [marriage equality is] 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?”
It took radio host Michael Medved to gently point out to Mike Huckabee that Dred Scott was overturned by constitutional amendment a short time later after certain ... unpleasantries. It was a bit of a big deal, and was definitely in all the papers.
So no, Dred Scott is most certainly not "to this day the law of the land," not by any possible interpretation, and we must add this to the pile of things about the Supreme Court over which Mike Huckabee is still deeply and inexplicably confused.
“The Supreme Court in the same-sex marriage decision made a law and they made it up out of thin air. Therefore, until Congress decides to codify that and give it a statute it’s really not an operative law and that’s why what Kim Davis did was operate under not only the Kentucky Constitution which was the law under which she was elected but she’s operating under the fact that there’s no statute in her state nor at the federal level that authorizes her."
So while the Republican establishment frets that Donald Trump is not a real candidate and that his rank ignorance of American law and government is an insult to the party, let's all take a moment to note that Serious Candidate Mike Huckabee has never figured out why it is that the Dred Scott decision is no longer being followed today.
He presumably believes slavery at some point fell out of fashion and society, over time, just sort of decided to ignore the court on that one.
IMO this is a result of handed down hate they later in life while still in the frame of mind they obviously were raised in, when engaged in practicing and promoting it they get caught up in the rhetoric and reveal their opinions are that of their great great great great racist ancestors and the reasoning is that of older times that are not law anymore but none the less real in the mind of those who oppose.
you can remove the racist from the early environment but you can't remove the early environment influence from the racist, keep in mind all bigots are not racist but all racist are bigots.
click this link more perspectives. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/bigotry
