To put it simply, I think the SCOTUS weighs heavily on justices who serve there. Some justices try so hard to ‘do the right thing’ that they miss the forest for the trees.
Roberts didn’t want to over-rule Congress. What he missed was that even Congress has no power to do something unconstitutional.
It’s my opinion, and I’m entitled to one, that Justice Roberts screwed up terribly here.
Congress and the President stated emphatically they were not intending to start a new tax. So what does Roberts do? Why he upholds the new tax. What tax Chief Justice?
Sounds like Roberts was fishing for an excuse to be able to say the Constitution allows Obamacare. He grasped at the Obama lawyer’s #3 argument as possibly having merit, and used it to justify upholding Obamacare.
But he didn’t like it and if his eyes were red it was probably because he hated what he was doing and didn’t believe a word of it.
IOW, Roberts was told that he would make this decision or the country’s economy would be destroyed immediately - and as a crap sandwich Soros/Obama also told him he had to be the one to read the verdict. Piss be on Obama though - because Roberts couldn’t rape his country with a smile, and their sadistic attempt to make him do so has revealed the whole thing (along with other signals Roberts and others have given in the past).
And now the whole world should know exactly what is going on here. Our country is literally taken hostage.
” Roberts didn’t want to over-rule Congress. What he missed was that even Congress has no power to do something unconstitutional.”
Over-rule Congress? Why, the whole thing was a ruse...a “shakedown” a payoff to
Governors
AARP
Unions(exempt)
It was racketeering at its finest.
It was a criminal enterprise, locking the Republicans entirely out of the picture. Roberts is now complicit in this gangsterism!