Some like yourself just don’t get it. Hopefully it will sink in some day soon and you will see just how wise Chief Justice’s decision was.
“Some like yourself just don’t get it. Hopefully it will sink in some day soon and you will see just how wise Chief Justice’s decision was.”
In the very least you must admit that your fictitious Roberts was wrong about Kennedy, and therefore looks very, very stupid. Also, that aside from all questions of the duty of justices to abide by the Constitution and not to let petty political calculations to interfere with the truth, he has swapped his inheritance for a mess of pottage. For he has set a precedent whereby the feds can order us to do anything so long as they threaten to tax us if we don’t, and received what in exchange? Authorship of the opinion and a Republican issue that expires on Nov., 2012.
Not that writing the opinion means nothing. Obiter dicta can loom larger than decisions, cf. the infamous Footnote Four. But that’s no compensation.