Today i submit to you his will remains a mystery. But some things have come and become very clear to me. That is why today i am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the united states. Governor perry polling in the Single Digits and stopped paying campaign staffers. Failed to make the primetime cnn debate five days away in the reagan library. And showed every sign of going nowhere. Reaction now from cnn commentator, donald trump supporter, jeffrey lord, and Senior Adviser to the rand paul super pac, concerned American Voters what do you make of this . Not a huge surprise. Timing of it sooner than some thought . Well i think there is a couple interesting lessons here. Number one, governor perry is the one who went out of his way to attack donald trump said he was a cancer on the republican party. His numbers tanked. And today, we see that hes, you know, in essence pulling out of the race u. N. We. Number two, along the lines an interesting situation in texas. He is of course the
something the court has been doing if you remember history, ins 1903. called judicial review. we suggest former governor mike huckabee should know all about it. probably does. governors sign laws many of which get challenged in courts and some of which are found unconstitutional. civics 101. that is not the end of it. mr. huck abe on wednesday took his judicial reasoning new a whole new planet. listen to what he told conservative radio host michael medved. dred scott decision remains to this day the lay of the land. that says that black people are not fully human. does any body follow dred scott? now that decision, again from high school history class, affirms in the simplest terms that slaves were property. governor huckabee was equating the marriage decision to that and suggesting because we don t abide by the dred scott decision made by the court, the same should apply to the marriage ruling. keeping them honest when it comes to dred scott, let s be charitable and say it does no
work like that it is not on the books. two reasons the first aavailable for viewing this week in fact on pbs. from director ken burns, for the first time in high definition, the civil war. that s right the civil war. a direct consequence of the civil war was a pair of amendment to the constitution. the 13th in 165 which abolished slavery, and the 14th which overturned the basis for the dred scott decision no matter what people believed about slavery in the years that followed. no matter what mike huck abe believes now about marriage. joining now to elaborate. senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. do you believe mike huckabee believes this, what do you make of this? i don t know. it s friday night. my experience is most people on friday night want to talk about 19th century constitutional history. so, you know really a good time to talk about this. it is, no doubt. and what he actually believes and what he said, i think he does believe this.