[knarf]

Unfortunately, the bravado produced by this enabling device will bring about more freedom destructing rules, regulations and an emboldened press/media that will take more than years ... perhaps three or four American (I'm tired of Conservatism and Conservatists .. they don't seem to "get it" nor get things done) administrations.

Why is there no American party?

[Nervous Tick]

>> John Roberts turned the Constitution and the Supreme Court on its head with a not-quite-coherent opinion

Roberts is a muddled thinker. Not quite the legal genius he was made out to be when W nominated him.

[LRS]

It’s a tax… it’s a penalty… no, wait…it’s a tax.

It's a pox...

[Anima Mundi]

Why would Roberts write something that seems so strange and illogical? It is almost as if he wrote something really bizarro to attract attention and to let everybody know, in a coded way, that he was being forced. For this thought to enter my mind just shows how very tortured his explanations seem for a supposedly sane, thoughtful person. It comes across as in a mystery movie when a hostage is on the phone and says something the person on the other end of the phone will KNOW is out of place, such as “Tell aunt Mary I’m thinking of her” when there is no aunt Mary.

[iontheball]

Robert's opinion has written all over it that he was under ‘supreme’ duress. He simply is not this dumb. Individuals can get very incoherent when their loved ones lives are being threatened if they do not meet the extortionists demands. This is what I see evidenced in this opinion. A last minute ultimatum delivered to Roberts to do it our way or you will pay dearly. Though he gave them what they demanded, he still managed to mete out a few surprises for the statists.

[DManA]

The entire body of US law is internally contradictory.

When 4 justices use well reasoned arguments based on law and precedent to prove “A” and 5 justices use well reasoned arguments based on law and precedence to prove “NOT A” then the body of law and precedence MUST logically be internally contradictory.

Which means all legal decisions are totally arbitrary.