Your last remark brought up a disturbing image (n/t/m bile)....I wonder if his going 5/4 the other way, bought 7/2 on the other issue, I agree with Krauthammer and Brit Hume, who called the decision more institutional, than Constitutional.
Striking the ACA would have been a pyrric victory, when the left went apeshit over the court, before an election, rather than after it....
It’s not possible to look at all the facts, the language,and exigent situations, and not see a very sly, very calculated play.
Charles Lane nearly fellated him on FNS yesterday.
Your last remark brought up a disturbing image (n/t/m bile)....Did you really have to go there? eeeeewww
But since we are going to appeal to people who are paid to pontificate, then here's the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.
In the process, Chief Justice Roberts has hollowed out dual federal-state sovereignty and eviscerated the very limit on the Commerce Clause that he posits elsewhere in his opinion and that has some conservatives singing his praises. From now on, Congress can simply regulate interstate commerce by imposing "taxes" whenever someone does or does not do something contrary to its desires.