Do the opinions have dates on them - dates when they were written? Or do they all just have the date that the decision is made public?
If Roberts did write the “dissent” when it was supposed to be the majority opinion, then this reporter is pulling our legs when she says that the dissent doesn’t address the majority opinion because the people who wrote it didn’t even want to engage with Roberts.
But some have said that the dissent has stuff that really sounds like it came from either Alito(?) or Kennedy.
I wonder exactly what happened.
Just a thought:
If Roberts had written what is now the decent but was then the majority, maybe he didn’t like what the original decent said. Maybe it did not achieve his goal....To make those in congress, the rats, responcible for their own manipulations ......SO as the highest ranking he writes the second opinion..pointing out that he is aware of their verbal games; calling them on their stripping of the original bill, taxing without using the tax word etc. IOW he out Alinskies them.,,,,
His Message to congress: “You want to play games with the powers given to you by the American people? OK We’ll play!Let me lock you in a cage and call the citizens in to deal with you! Here Bubba!”