“total violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.”
You’re correct. Equal Protection arguments also include the 5th’s Due Process of Law clause which is completely missing from Robert’s decree.
Roberts and the others can wash it through as many precedents as they want, but Congress is NOT empowered to Tax the Inaction of Citizens failing to enter the stream of Private Sector, Legal Commerce.
Both Procedural and Substantive Due Process are completely Missing from Roberts Decree.
Substantive because of Equal Protection and Procedural on a Host of Substantive Outcome issues (including the waivers) being swept aside/ignored BY the Court which doesn’t possess the authority to ignore them.
If Roberts pulled this stunt Knowingly to Anger enough Americans to vote Zero and his crowd Out in Nov, even though no one will ever Prove Roberts intended it, that’s one Whopper of an abuse of Process on his part which we All could have done without.
Roberts knew better. They All knew better. And this would have been Far better for All of us if they’d just Done what they’re Seated to do which is uphold the Constitution, NOT Politic it with Roberts possibly scheming to get the electorate woken up through his abuse of his Office.
If he did, then he quite apparently over-estimated the people in translating that to restructuring the Congress. Hell, nobody has been that up in arms about the procedure in which CommieCare was passed in the first place. Nor is it within the scope of the courts to play political games with the law. That he felt within his latitude to do so is most concerning with regard to what else he might do in the coming years.