Huckabee: Justice Roberts 'needs medication for schizophrenia'

Washington Examiner ^ | 6/29/15 | Barbara Boland

[markomalley]

"Justice [John] Roberts apparently needs medication for schizophrenia because his opinion [on gay marriage] is almost the direct opposite" of the logic in the Obamacare opinion, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said on Iowa radio show "Mickelson in the Morning" Friday. Roberts dissented from Friday's gay marriage ruling but wrote the majority opinion upholding federal subsidies for Obamacare.

On Thursday "The Supreme Court, with Roberts agreeing, essentially rewrote a law that Congress screwed up — they legislated from the bench," said Huckabee. "They did something they are constitutionally prohibited from doing. That they are restricted from doing. They did it anyway, just to save Obamacare. They made a political decision, not a legal one. They clearly flew in the face of the law."

Friday's decision "did the same thing, except this time I guess Roberts woke up and realized the Supreme Court was becoming the extreme court; it had decided it was no longer just the Supreme Court, it was the Supreme Being. It has today acted as if it could overrule the laws of nature and of nature's God," said the former Arkansas governor. "Today was not a ruling about same-sex marriage, that's what I keep hearing. This was not quality of marriage, this was about redefinition of marriage, and [Antonin] Scalia got it right. The rest of the majority, including [Anthony] Kennedy, got it incredibly wrong."

"Five unelected people in black robes cannot write laws," said Huckabee, an opinion he echoed repeatedly over the weekend. He said that the decision overrides the Constitutional system of the three branches of government. "The courts simply cannot overturn the ultimate authority in the United States under our Constitution: the people themselves," he said.

"This decision ... is almost a complete evisceration of that very principle of checks and balances, and the fact that the court cannot write a law just because they thought what it should be rather than what it is," said Huckabee.

[Pirate Ragnar]

Words of wisdom from Huckabee who called for a national ban on smoking and all that implies.

[Ray76]

He has obliterated the meaning of words.

[itsahoot]

"Five unelected people in black robes cannot write laws," said Huckabee, an opinion he echoed repeatedly over the weekend.

Why do we keep saying they can't do that when clearly they can and have?

[hal ogen]

Apparently, America has been “transformed” into a place where you can get-way-with whatever you can get-away-with. Especially if you have “connections”, you can get-away-with a lot. What a country! Thanks LIBs and RINOs.