[Smokeyblue]

"The four doctrinairre leftists on the Court did not join in the Commerce Clause portion of Roberts opinion."

You are correct.

Thus, Roberts, amongst the majority, was (on this issue) leading a parade and noone was following.

The vote totals are more accurately represented as an 8 to 1 vote rather than 5 to 4 vote.

[ModelBreaker]

“The vote totals are more accurately represented as an 8 to 1 vote rather than 5 to 4 vote.”

Not sure how you mean this. The dissent (the four good justices) agreed the act was not within the commerce clause. So that’s 5 on Roberts dicta re the commerce clause. The four bad justices couldn’t imagine any limit to congress powers under the commerce clause. So I count 5-4 on the commerce clause, although Robert’s reasoning was all by itself.