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CBS News: Roberts Was Going to Overturn ObamaCare But Changed His Mind
News Buster.org ^ | July 1, 2012 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 07/01/2012 10:47:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

CBS News broke a huge story on Sunday's Face the Nation concerning the Supreme Court's Thursday ruling on ObamaCare.

According to Jan Crawford, CBS legal and political correspondent, Chief Justice John Roberts was initially going to strike down the individual mandate requiring citizens to buy health insurance, but changed his mind over the objections of the conservatives on the Court (video follows with transcript):

CBS News: Roberts Initially Wanted to Strike Down ObamaCare Mandate But Changed His Mind

NORAH O’DONNELL, SUBSTITUTE HOST: We're going to start first with Jan because you've done some reporting. The big question was why did Chief Justice John Roberts do what he did? And you've learned some new details right?

JAN CRAWFORD, CBS LEGAL AND POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's right. What was striking about this decision was that it was the conservative Chief Justice that was providing that decisive fifth vote, joining the liberals to uphold the President’s signature achievement. And Norah that was something that no one would have expected back in 2005 when President George W. Bush put him on the Supreme Court, and that was something that not even the conservative justices expected back in March when the Court heard arguments in this case.

I am told by two sources with specific knowledge of the Court's deliberations that Roberts initially sided with the conservatives in this case and was prepared to strike down the heart of this law, the so-called individual mandate, of course, that requires all Americans to buy insurance or pay a penalty. But Roberts, I'm told by my sources, changed his views deciding to instead join with the liberals.

And he withstood-- I'm told by my sources -- a month-long desperate campaign by the conservative justices to bring him back to the fold, and that campaign was led, ironically, by Justice Anthony Kennedy. And why that's ironic is because it was Justice Kennedy that conservatives feared would be the one most likely to defect. But their effort, of course, was unsuccessful. Roberts did not budge. The conservatives wrote that astonishing joint dissent united in opposition, and Roberts wrote the majority opinion with the four liberals to uphold the President's signature achievement.

O’DONNELL: Has this there been anything like this on the Court before? I mean, that's extraordinary that the Chief Justice, according to your report about a month ago decided to do this and then was lobbied unsuccessfully.

CRAWFORD: Yes, that has happened before, and often in high-profile, controversial cases including Justice Kennedy who's changed his views in a very high-profile case involving a woman's rights on abortion back in 1992. And justices do change their mind. There is precedent for that. One justice told me that surprisingly enough it happens about once a term. But in the case of this magnitude with so much on the line, conservatives believed they had Roberts’ vote in this case, and there's quite a lot of anger within the hallways of the Supreme Court right now.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alteredsource; facethenation; jancrawford; obamacaredecision; robertscaved; robertscavedtomedia
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To: Kaslin

Roberts is just another soul for Satan.


41 posted on 07/01/2012 11:07:36 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: Copenhagen Smile
“Screw him” isn’t strong enough in my opinion. What he has done to this country, the precedent he has set, is truly damnable.

Rogers is an activists judge and a fool. Too bad he cannot be impeached. Newt was right, we need to purge activists AH from our courts. Rogers now is Americas number one enemy of our rights.

42 posted on 07/01/2012 11:07:46 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Copenhagen Smile

Roberts IMHO will go down in history no different than Beneditc Arnold or the Rosenbergs.


43 posted on 07/01/2012 11:08:18 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: KantianBurke
Whose actions accounted/will account for more deaths? A two word answer will do.

44 posted on 07/01/2012 11:08:58 AM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: Logical me
Sorry I meant Roberts.
45 posted on 07/01/2012 11:09:27 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: I see my hands

The guy on the right hurt the country much more than the other person.


46 posted on 07/01/2012 11:09:52 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: cuban leaf

“I’m more and more convinced that he was threatened in a way that had teeth.”

Probably; it’s how the Chicago mob/political machine operates. Blackmail and worse are SOP for these people. Roberts knows better; this isn’t what his life has been about. Something evil was threatened, I believe.


47 posted on 07/01/2012 11:09:55 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Please, God, when I wake up tomorrow, can Joe Biden be President?)
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To: Eye of Unk
"I think their was a genius play made here ..."

Well, maybe he is a genius compared to your written opinions.

48 posted on 07/01/2012 11:10:20 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Kaslin
However you never see liberal turds change their position. A Pox on Roberts. The spin out of the RNC is idiotic, but not much difference between progressives of the D or R variety.
49 posted on 07/01/2012 11:10:32 AM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: Kaslin

Don’t tell me... he ‘evolved’ on the issue, right? ;-P


50 posted on 07/01/2012 11:10:48 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Kaslin

Roberts found a “behavior tax” in the Constitution? Wow, I wonder how Congress is going to use it’s new “behavior tax” power. GOP appointed Justices screwing us and the Constitution yet again. But of course we just have to keep voting GOP, lol, same old same old, one more time.


51 posted on 07/01/2012 11:11:29 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: Paladin2

An image comes to mind of Obama with the same look and saying nearly the same thing that Yamamoto said shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor.


52 posted on 07/01/2012 11:11:40 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (Is your state Obamacare free yet?)
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To: onyx

screw you. I had a brain tumor, and I NEVER did idiotic things like Roberts just pulled. And before you start an epilepsy mimi, know you’ll be insulting about 2% of the population. Moron.


53 posted on 07/01/2012 11:12:33 AM PDT by Cherokee Conservative (If a tree falls over in the woods, and then snaps back upright as a joke, do the squirrels laugh?)
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To: All
Obama celebrates his Supreme Court Victory:
54 posted on 07/01/2012 11:13:06 AM PDT by Signalman ( November, 2012-The End of an Error)
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To: cuban leaf

IMO, the President and his party threatened to unleash hell on the conservative justices.

They for the most part are pretty obscure to the general public away from the court; imagine what they’d face having the Occupy crowd down their throats all the time.

Guess we’ll never know.


55 posted on 07/01/2012 11:13:06 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Cicero
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56 posted on 07/01/2012 11:13:06 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (NOVEMBER 6th: THE END OF AN ERROR! Let us pray it's not the start of another!*)
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To: Kaslin

I still have nothing but disgust for the other 4 justices, especially the liberal progressive women. None of them are qualified to do anything. They are ideologues who know nothing of nor care nothing for the law. They honestly believe in making it all up as they go along. And they seem to know nothing about the lives of ordinary Americans whom they are supposed to serve.


57 posted on 07/01/2012 11:13:14 AM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: JimSEA
Roberts’ legacy was threatened and he has made a personal assessment that progressives will prevail in the political struggles.

That is my take also. He thinks the dims have the winning hand due to demographics and hitched his wagon to them.

I don't think he was threatened. I think he lies awake at night thinking about the "Roberts Court" and its place in history. He wants to be in the pantheon of noted Chief Justices.

His vote was all about John Roberts and nothing else. No need for the tin foil when occam's razor gives the answer.

58 posted on 07/01/2012 11:14:26 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Kaslin

OR this could just be spin by Kennedy clerks to try and rehab his damaged image after his despicable Arizona SB1070 decision, among others.


59 posted on 07/01/2012 11:14:44 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Kaslin
With the Court ignoring the Constitution, session by session, to give itself and the Federal government more power—with no restraint imposed from the other branches—the day had to come, which may be today, when the limit is reached. If defying the Constitution is not a high crime or misdemeanor for officials sworn to uphold the Constitution, what is?

It's time to bite the bullet, grab the "third rail" and start impeaching Federal judges for violating their oaths, right up through the Supreme Court. It's our right and duty. We know what the Constitution says; it's purposely written in everyday language so that ordinary men and their representatives can understand it.

It is a disservice to our country, and to the many honest judges up and down the levels of the judiciary who have to deal with these irrational, corrupt fruitcakes and their shoddy work, not to impeach the offenders. Let the campaign begin today. House indicts, Senate convicts—is that right?

60 posted on 07/01/2012 11:15:24 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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