[butterdezillion]

What was Roberts’ opinion? That will tell us a lot about how Obamacare is going to go. If Roberts is compromised we’re sunk.

[workerbee]

Roberts voted with the majority.

[Williams]

Fox judge Napolitano says the heart and soul of the Arizona law was struck down. Even the one preserved provision will quickly come back to the courts.

You cannot stop someone bc you suspect they are illegal. This also strikes at the heart of Alabama’s law.

Per judge N

[AuH2ORepublican]

We won’t know until Thursday which way Roberts voted.

[Mr Rogers]

Roberts screwed us. The only thing AZ is allowed to do is tell the feds they found someone is here without papers. We cannot detain that person, penalize that person for working in Arizona, or do anything to inconvenience that person.

Just tell Obama that someone is here without papers, and then wait for Barry to enforce the law.

What a damn joke - if you like bitter jokes!

[AuH2ORepublican]

“What was Roberts’ opinion?”

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Sorry, I thought you meant in the Obamacare case. In the AZ case, Roberts signed on to Kennedy’s opinion upholding part of the law but striking down most of it. But I wouldn’t read too much into it. Immigration and Obamacare are very different issues, and precedent appeared to be on the side of federal preemption of what the AZ law does (I’m not saying I agree with such precedents, but they are there).

Besides, having Roberts vote with Kennedy on Obamacare will only be bad news if Kennedy votes to uphold the law, and if Kennedy votes that way Obamacare will be upheld even if Roberts voted to strike it down. Roberts’s vote to uphold Obamacare would only be dispositive if Roberts votes to uphold while Kennedy votes to strike it down, which I can’t fathom occurring.

If anything, Roberts having Kennedy’s back in the AZ case may portend good news for the upcoming Obamacare opinions release. Roberts allowed Kennedy’s AZ opinion to become the Opinion of the Court instead of a mere plurality, which I’m sure Kennedy appreciated, and it didn’t really cost us anything with respect to the AZ law because had Roberts dissented the 4-4 vote would have let the 9th Circuit’s opinion stand (and it wouldn’t hurt us in the long-run, either, since Kagan wouldn’t have to recuse herself when the Alabama law got to SCOTUS and it would surely be struck down 5-4 even with Roberts dissenting). Roberts being on Kennedy’s good side could be what clinches Kennedy’s vote with the conservatives on striking down Obamacare.