{"id":988,"date":"2015-05-12T17:12:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T22:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=988"},"modified":"2015-05-12T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T22:12:43","slug":"race-2016-dr-ben-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/05\/12\/race-2016-dr-ben-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"Race 2016: Dr. Ben Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pediatric surgeon and GOPer Ben Carson has entered the Presidential nomination race.\u00a0 He has never served in a public office before.\u00a0 His On the Issues quiz<\/a> suggests a mostly doctrinaire conservative, although he does oppose larger military budgets and invading Iran – good for him.\u00a0 His positions on gay marriage and marijuana, on the other hand, clearly indicates he’s out of touch on those issues.<\/p>\n

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The Atlantic <\/a>and GQ <\/a>have longish profiles of Dr. Carson.\u00a0 Neither is complimentary; the latter is entitled, “What If Sarah Palin Were a Brain Surgeon?”<\/p>\n

The Baltimore Sun <\/a>reports (amongst many) that Carson wants to redefine the role of SCOTUS:<\/p>\n

Carson said Sunday<\/span><\/span> that “we need to discuss” the court’s long-held power to review laws passed by Congress. That authority was established in the 1803 landmark case Marbury v. Madison.<\/p>\n

Carson, the former head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and a longtime resident of Baltimore County, announced his candidacy for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination last week in Detroit. He now lives in Florida.<\/p>\n

He was asked on “Fox News Sunday<\/span><\/span>” whether the executive branch is obligated to enforce laws that the Supreme Court declares constitutional.<\/p>\n

“We need to get into a discussion of this because it has changed from the original intent,” he said.<\/p>\n

Carson has said a president is obliged to carry out laws passed by Congress, but not what he called “judicial laws” that emanate from courts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The New Civil Rights Movement <\/a>also notes Carson’s stance and then references a rebuttal at the National Constitution Center <\/a>in regards to a similar statement by Newt Gingrich:<\/p>\n

It is a rarity for presidents to simply ignore decisions of the Supreme Court, although it has been done.\u00a0 President Abraham Lincoln famously ignored Chief Justice Roger B. Taney\u2019s order finding unconstitutional Lincoln\u2019s suspension of habeas corpus rights in 1861, early in the Civil War.But the example of Roosevelt and the German saboteurs is more complex than the Gingrich summary implies.\u00a0 The saboteurs, convicted of war crimes by a military commission, actually had their day in a civilian court \u2014 in three courts, including the Supreme Court \u2014 as they pursued (unsuccessfully) a writ of habeas corpus.\u00a0 They were not executed until after the Supreme Court had upheld the President\u2019s power to set up the military commission.\u00a0\u00a0 There was never an occasion for Roosevelt to ignore the Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Hill <\/a>reports:<\/p>\n

Republican White House candidate Ben Carson on Friday<\/span><\/span> stood by his remark that President Obama is a \u201cpsychopath,\u201d saying the president displays the associated personality traits.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said he reminds you of a psychopath, because they tend to be extremely smooth, charming people who can tell a lie to your face,\u201d Carson told host John Harwood on CNBC\u2019s \u201cSpeakeasy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like sincerity, even though they know it\u2019s a lie,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which reminds me of when REASON Magazine published an article on then-President Clinton and his alleged emotional damage.\u00a0 Just about as credible as an alligator subsisting on apples.<\/p>\n

The Blaze reports <\/a>Glenn Beck believes Carson’s ambitions are doomed:<\/p>\n

Glenn Beck on Friday<\/span><\/span> said Dr. Ben Carson\u2019s presidential career<\/a> is over before it began, after the famed neurosurgeon said on CNN that homosexuality is a choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe answer here is, \u2018Why is government involved in marriage in the first place?\u2019\u201d Beck said on his radio program. \u201cLet the individual be free to make his choice. The only reason why the government is involved is so the government can get their grimy little hands on tax dollars. That\u2019s the only reason. Why are we arguing about this?\u201d<\/p>\n

Beck said Carson\u2019s explanation, that \u201ca lot of people who go into prison, go into prison straight \u2014 and when they come out, they\u2019re gay,\u201d sounded like it came from a \u201c10-year-old.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ThinkProgress has a list of 7 things <\/a>Carson believes, which makes him look ridiculous.\u00a0 Hard to disagree – Carson may be leaving this race early, if he has this much catch-up to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pediatric surgeon and GOPer Ben Carson has entered the Presidential nomination race.\u00a0 He has never served in a public office before.\u00a0 His On the Issues quiz suggests a mostly doctrinaire conservative, although he does oppose larger military budgets and invading Iran – good for him.\u00a0 His positions on gay marriage \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}