• Mike Huckabee favors a federal ban on Abortion.

• He is a Death penalty Retentionist having witnessed 17
executions in his state of Arkansas while serving as governor.

• Apart from this he is an extremely progressive
Republican on most criminal justice issues.

• Huckabee voiced his opinion that certain Federal
campaign finance reform proposals would violate the First
Amendment.

• He is a strong supporter of immigrant's rights. He
opposed a proof of citizenship voting law, discouraged government
raids and supported an instate tuition rate for undocumented
residents.

• At the same time he also supports increased border
security.

• Huckabee opposes the Employment Non discrimination Act
and the addition of sexual orientation and gender identity to
federal hate crime laws.

• He has repeatedly criticized racial disparities in the
criminal justice system and is known to have established a racial
reconciliation initiative in Arkansas in 1997.

• He strongly supports the rights to bear arms and has an
A+ rating from the National Rifles Association.

• He is known to be the best republican candidate on civil
liberties issues following 9/11 and has voiced his disgust
against torture and ethnic profiling and has called for the
Guantanamo bay.

• Huckabee has been recognized as the mainstream politics
best candidate for Social conservatism and not be underestimated
at any cost.		

• Obama voted YES on reauthorizing the Patriot Act and also
co sponsored the SAFE Act which is a bill to amend the USA
Patriot Act to place reasonable restrictions on the usage of
surveillance and the use of search warrants and includes other
purposes as well.

• He voted YES to strike the provisions providing immunity
from civil liabilities ton electronic communication service
providers for certain assistance provided to the government.

• He said it was necessary for the nation to strengthen
and improve intelligence capabilities. The Director of
Intelligence should be given the necessary authority he/she needs
over budget and personnel.

• He supports extending the right of Habeas Corpus to
Guantanamo detainees. This he thinks absolutely necessary to
prove to the world that the Unites States is not a country that
ships prisoners to far off countries in the middle of the night
to be tortured.

• He opined that the world should get the message that
America is a land of laws, a nation that stands against torture.
He strongly opposes interrogation methods and procedures that
brought about emotional and physical suffering.

• He said he would expand the Hate Crimes Statute by
supporting the Mathew Shepherd Act. This would strengthen federal
hate crime legislation and also pull up the Department of
Justice.

• He plans to ban racial profiling by federal law
enforcement agencies and provide federal incentives to local
police departments who help to prevent this practice.
		

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