GOP 2016 Hopeful: POTUS Doesn’t Have To Listen To SCOTUS

Ben Carson, a candidate running for the GOP 2016 Presidential candidate nomination, overstepped his bounds in a recent interview when he said “the laws of the land are not provided by the judiciary branch,” Noah Feldman writes in BloombergView. When asked by Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace if he believed the president must observe decisions made by the Supreme Court, Carson argued the president could disagree with Court rulings. When asked specifically if the president must enforce Supreme Court interpretations of law, Carson said, “It is an open question. It needs to be discussed.” These views are “wrong and dangerous,” Feldman opines, and even though the chance of Carson being elected president are nil, they are a cause for concern because they are “an important reflection on the current state of American populist conservatism.”