He has a point, kind of. A chief justice with the best legal philosophies but whose people skills stank might have trouble selling those philosophies to wobbly colleagues.
But that has nothing to do with the Obamacare decision debacle.
Where did he make such a point?
In hindsight, that strategy to replace Roberts’ appointment as associate to replace O’Connor and bump him up to Chief after Rehnquist passed away to avoid an extra confirmation battle (appointing a sitting justice for a total of three confirmation battles in a row) was not the best decision...Roberts was not prepared or qualified to start out as Chief as we can clearly see from his conduct in this case and what he apparently saw his role as in being the Chief to try to get favorable press for the Court from the media and the far left talking heads in academia (if we assume the reports from the alleged leaks are true...which if they were not, you would think the Court would be denouncing them...the lack of denials speaks volumes to me). It seemed like a genius chess move on Bush’s part at the time to undercut Leahy and company’s shenanigans...but not now. Hindsight is always 20/20, of course.