Excellent point.
In any case, it would take years to get Obamacare back up to the Supreme Court again, and then Roberts would think up some other reason for voting with the liberals.
The most probable explanation for what he did is that he was blackmailed. Perhaps, as several sources have suggested, because his adoption of his Irish children was questionably legal, and he risks losing them if he offends The One.
How old are those kids now? When does the threat become useless?
I remember the NY slimes came out with a piece about Robert’s kids a few months before the ruling. It must have been the shot across the bow, he horse’s head in his bed... “sell out the entire country or lose your kids”.
No profile in courage for him.