On Sunday Ben Carson tossed out two centuries of constitutional law saying the President doesn’t need to observe Supreme Court rulings, including on same-sex marriage.
Dr. Ben Carson stunned even “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace when he insisted 212 years on constitutional law are still an “open question” that need to be “discussed.”
Wallace tried to hold Carson accountable for several incendiary comments he’s made, including the Obamacare “is slavery,” America today is like Nazi Germany, and his regressive flat tax policy, which Carson says he got the idea for from the Bible. But it was the comments he made in the context of same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court Wallace took great exception to.
“Just this week you said the President must carry out a law passed by Congress,” Wallace noted. “But you said he doesn’t necessarily have to pass what you called a ‘judicial law.’ Which raises the question, do you believe the president must observe a decision by the Supreme Court?”
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Carson went on to invoke the Supreme Court’s extremely bad Dred Scott decision and the Civil War as a “perfect example” of his belief that the president can ignore Supreme court rulings.
“But, sir,” Wallace responded, “since Marbury v. Madison in 1803, we have lived under the principle of judicial review which says, if the Supreme Court says this is the law, this is constitutional, the rest—the executive has to observe that.”
Carson was not having any of that.
“And I have said, this is an area we need to discuss. We need to get into a discussion of this because it has changed from the original intent,” he responded.
“So, you’re saying this is an open question as far as you’re concerned?,” Wallace pushed.
“It is an open question. It needs to be discussed,” Carson doubled down.
Constitutional scholars would, and have, disagreed.
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