Whatever was used to blackmail him into voting for the ACA is probably still a viable threat to Roberts and his cushy job.... My guess is the White Hut isn’t too awfully worried about this.
Roberts made his bed with the ACA ruling and I think the fix was in since Romney did his own version in MA as governor.
ACA is a bailout for hospitals and health insurance companies by forcing everyone to buy insurance at new higher rates. Medicaid is expanded through contracts with private insurance companies lining their pockets again with more money going to the hospitals to cover the costs of those without insurance who showed up at their doors.
The hospitals and insurance companies needed cash infusion and Romney the Republican and Obama the Democrat helped them. Obama’s version has a lot of progressive liberal bells and whistles in it, but it takes more money out of everyone’s wallets to feed the health care industry.
And Roberts the good Republican W Bush GOPe appointee knew all this and ruled accordingly.
Obama doesn’t need to blackmail anyone, he has an entire army of alphabet soup agencies full of loyal progressive minions at his disposal, to do his bidding, and the courts and congress know it. This fact is lost on most people, who think that the rule of law or the Constitution still apply.
This is how the mafia works, this is how regimes take control, this how dictators rise to power, and this how the Germans elected a madman as chancellor.
Control has been concentrated in the executive branch, which controls the army, and the collection of taxes, a dangerous combination.
John Roberts will ask for more bribe money.
His decision destroyed millions of jobs and ruined healthcare in this country and for what? Was it blackmail? bribery? or some esoteric reason from one of the cloud people.