Federal Judiciary

Huckabee Wants Constitution to Live and Breathe

By Quin

I kid you not. This morning on CNN, Mike Huckabee told John Roberts (the reporter, not the chief justice) that The United States has "a living, breathing Constitution." This, from the same man who said his idea of a good future Supreme Court pick would be Lavenski Smith...who, according to the Minnesota Bar Association, is generally regarded as slightly left of the center of the Eigth Circuit Court of Appeals. (cross posted from The American Spectator.) More on this here.

I would also remind readers that Huckabee originally praised the Lawrence v. Texas decision (the sodomy case). Granted, as Andrew has noted, the Huckster since has backtracked and says now that he just hadn't understood the issues involved when he was asked about the case. But that brings up another matter, which is just how often this guy spouts off and then claims to have been uninformed -- and on MAJOR issues, no less. Pakistanis crossing the Mexican-American border by the hundreds each year? The National Intelligence Estimate on Iran being unimportant, (or whatever it was that he said)? And the key decision that opened the door to court-imposed homosexual marriage, while using foreign law as one of its arguments, treated as if it was a good decision? Give me a break.

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Full post as published by ConfirmThem on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).