Apparently Gingrich thinks that IF he should ever take the Presidential Oath it also creates
an Open Marriage.
Newt Gingrich has pledged that on his first day as president he will set up a constitutional showdown by ordering the military to defy a supreme court ruling extending some legal rights to foreign terrorism suspects and captured enemy combatants in US custody.
That would be the decision of the Roberts' Court (without Roberts on the majority opinion naturally) in
Boumediene v. Bush (2008). Ignoring the Constitution is not exactly rare in the Presidency (see Jackson, Andrew through Obama, Barack) but leave it to Gingrich to be so "open" about it. And in South Carolina famous for having problems with the Constitution (and judging by the
standing ovation that it gave last night also problems with fidelity in marriage) this was not a negative:
He implied that would also extend to the 1973 decision, Roe vs Wade, legalising abortion. "If the court makes a fundamentally wrong decision, the president can in fact ignore it," said Gingrich to cheers.
Unlike what the country can do when a
President Gingrich makes a fundamentally wrong decision, although we certainly would have to get used to it. [cross-posted at
Firedoglake]
