• 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.
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