And again, much like the rest of the hysterics, it isolates the argument to a Tax/Commerce argument, ignoring the very real fact that there still 23 major lawsuits winding their way back to SCOTUS.
Secondarily, One of the other little things that Roberts did, was ensure Catholics would spend every Sunday till November getting lectured on Religious Freedom.
Michigan,Wisconsin,PA,NJ all have decent Catholic populations. In NJ, they make up a fair amount of self described independents.
And there are 6 Catholics on SCOTUS, though I’m not saying Sotomayor would jump to the right, But Roberts,Alito,Scalia,Thomas,Kennedy...Four of whom were ready to strike the Bill down already, on less stringent ground.
That makes Roberts a swing vote with Street Cred, and...you could be looking at 7-2 or better when those suits get heard.
I have absolutely no faith that the court would void the entire thing, no matter what.
Ginsburg did have some lines that indicated that she would overturn the HHS mandate.
From your keyboard to the file clerk’s stack.