[tentmaker]

I no longer see SCOTUS as a part of the “checks and balances” that protected our Republic.

But that's exactly what the court did. It created a limit to the commerce clause for the first time. (incredibly important!) It re-affirmed the states tenth amendment rights in the medicaid portion of the ruling. And, in spite of the hue and cry, it pointed out that SCOTUS also has limits under the Constitution and refused to delve in the land of policy (setting taxes).

Roberts should be applauded by conservatives:

• He has reigned in the unrestricted expansion of the commerce clause for the first time since Wickard v Fillmore in 1942.
• He reinforced the tenth amendment
• He exposed the lie that ACA is not a tax. In fact, it's many taxes and cannot survive the sunshine of exposure
• He forced congressional deliberation of ACA into the framework of taxation, opening up new problems for it and making it easier to repeal in the Senate because taxation issues only require a simple majority vote (51) instead of 60 and are not subject to cloture and filibuster rules

[uncbob]

Good points

I would assume that Thomas— Alito— Kennedy—Scalia— were in agreement on those points

Wonder what their rebuttal was to the tax part or if they thought it was still unconstitutional even if a tax

[txhurl]

Amen! But that makes us those ‘silver lining’ window-lickers.