[wita]

“I am curious”

...and I can certainly understand your curiosity, however it appears that it is in part related to a desire to understand how a liberal making a truly absurd decision, arrives at the disastrous result.

I liken it to attempting to understand why a killer kills, or a Rapist Rapes. Who the hell cares. They have committed a punishable offense, and punishment is the next step, following the arrest and conviction, of course.

[Vigilanteman]

We're supposed to be talking about judges, no killers are rapists. While I realize the boundary between the two is growing less distinct, judges are obliged to explain the legal basis for their ruling.

If, indeed, a tax bill cannot be ruled on until someone actually pays the tax, then SCOTUS had no grounds to even rule on this case from the basis of it being a tax.

[Vigilanteman]

We're supposed to be talking about judges, not killers or rapists. While I realize the boundary between the two is growing less distinct, judges are still obliged to explain the legal basis for their ruling.

If, indeed, a tax bill cannot be ruled on until someone actually pays the tax, then SCOTUS had no grounds to even rule on this case from the basis of it being a tax.