[Ronaldus Magnus]

I didn't see this posted elsewhere. Does anyone else suspect that Chief Justice Roberts was coerced? Could this be related to his blond, blue-eyed children he and his wife supposedly adopted from Latin America that were "off-limits" during his confirmations?

[P-Marlowe]

Somebody has pictures of him in bed with a dead woman or a live boy.

[madison10]

As I mentioned yesterday...he may have received an offer he could NOT refuse.

Praying for the Chief Justice. He knew what would happen after the decision.

[max americana]

I don;t have any sympathy for this scum. Coerced or not.

[nuconvert]

Re your comment :

I doubt it. Toobin is an idiot

[surfer]

He was red-eyed because he was drinking with Bush late into the night...

[Timber Rattler]

Why? It’s not like they voted this morning after an intense argument and then walked into the court room, all teary eyed. They voted back in March.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Did he drive to the Court in his new Cadillac?

[skeeter]

Whatever his motivation he has just made a nation of 350 million supposedly free people considerably less free.

So I don't give a rip how personally upset he is.

[Amagi]

This picture circulated at the time of Roberts' confirmation.

Maybe his eyes are always bloodshot.

I wonder how he sleeps at nihght.

[MassExodus]

I’ll be happy to hold the knife braced against a wall for Roberts to impale himself.

[dfwgator]

"Roberts was red-eyed and unhappy as he read.”

Boo Frickin Hoo, I hope he suffers.

[Sola Veritas]

“Does anyone else suspect that Chief Justice Roberts was coerced?”

No way of knowing. His logic is specious. Take something that is argued as being under the “commerce cause” - calling that unconstitutional and then saying it is OK because it is really a tax. He may as well be the solicitor general for Mr. Obama.

[Gaffer]

Roberts well should have been distraught, red-eyed and apprehensive. He’s a f@cking traitor that had to stand up for the evil that he perpetrated. Damn George Bush for picking him. Damn him!

[niteowl77]

Bulls**t.

Jeffrey Toobin can't read minds.

John Roberts = Roger Taney without the conviction.

Mr. niteowl77

[CodeToad]

The court no longers serves the people, so why should the people obey it? We must not.

[crosshairs]

Definitely Roberts family has been threatened to submit.

[SuziQ]

Robert threw it back to Congress. Now Obama and the Democrats have to defend this as a TAX, which they’ve been trying to deny for years. It’s up to US now, to make sure it’s repealed, but NOT replaced with another big government solution.

[atc23]

I woke up this morning with a feeling of impending doom. I posted yesterday that I thought this tyranny would be narrowly upheld but even I didn't really believe it.

I'm in a state of shock that this happened in my lifetime. This paves the way for a despot who would make Obama look like a mewling little kitten by comparison.

Liberals should be very, very afraid of a Pol Pot style "right wing" strongman that orders compulsory taxes on youth refusing military service, debilitating personal taxes on counter programming via television viewership. The list can go on and on . .

What a brave new world we live in! Onward to Eurasia! Death to the enemies of progress!

[DannyTN]

He was probably just red eyed, because it's the most important decision in his career. Scalia was downcast no doubt, because Scalia understands the errors this court is making but is powerless to persuade the others to do the right thing. The court is right about one thing though. We have political redress through the elections. We need to throw the bums out. Then we need to do the following:

• An amendment forbidding the use of federal government matching funds. These are routinely used by the feds to force states to do things they would rather not do.
• An amendment forbidding federal taxes or penalties for failure to engage in commerce.

[Pete]

This is stupid. They didn’t vote on it this morning. Geez.