Planet X

Belmont Club ^ | 7-1-2012 | Richard Fernandez

[Sir Napsalot]

(snip) So to the question: why did Roberts change his mind the apparent answer is that ABC’s sources don’t know. But pundits, no less than astronomers are always eager to find the unseen source of an action. Having observed an effect, they want to know the cause. This was famously the case with Planet X, and the search for it led to the discovery of Pluto.

(snip) The mystery, like the actual cause of Robert’s change of heart, still awaits a definitive explanation. It may lie in a desire to put any future limitation of Congressional action on a sound footing. But for now, he did not want to be seen as meddling in politics. “Regardless of his thinking, it was clear to the conservatives that Roberts wanted the Court out of the red-hot dispute.”

The least convincing aspect of the CBS narrative is that Roberts could have been driven to avoid this controversy solely by reading the newspapers or listening to media accounts suggesting that the court would lose its legitimacy or that his reputation would suffer. Did those articles actually carry so much weight? Was the New York Times “Planet X”? An object so massive it was capable of steering the gas giants from the computed orbits without its massive bulk being seen? Or is there something else out there which the media telescopes have not discovered?

It’s is necessary of course to avoid the “fallacy of a single cause”, to believe that every event — such as Robert’s change of heart — is necessarily attributable to a single or major influence. An event might be the outcome of a dozen disparate influences. In that case, perhaps not even Justice Roberts knows exactly why he acted as he did, only that he did.

[Sir Napsalot]

Except that what Roberts thought to avoid politicking with his judicial restraint, he actually rewrote the law. And thus by avoiding the potholes on the road, he fell into the larger sinkhole.

Also CJ Roberts did not apply the same consistency, the same 'reasoning' to other recent high court rulings.

Since Roberts is unlikely to opine, one thing is for sure the working relationship with other 'conservative' justices was unpleasant at the moment.

[Perdogg]

Roberts is more like Uranus.

[cuban leaf]

[Travis McGee]

My theory is that Axlerod reintroduced Roberts to an old gay lover, and asked him if he would like it kept quiet, or not.

The missing Planet X is Roberts hidden homosexuality, IMHO.

[Travis McGee]

Some old pals from his gay daze.

[wayoverontheright]

So, in ROBERTSWORLD, states cannot be coerced by the federal government to enroll individuals in medicaid insurance, but individuals within those states can be coerced to acquire health insurance through a penalty/tax.

This fact alone makes the decison anti-constitutional.

Previous SC decisions have elevated the federal government interests above states’ interests, but this one vaults the states and establishes federal dominion over individuals.

Historic indeed.