I don’t think they “have anything on him” - I just think he wanted to be part of this historic Washington acheievement, and being an attorney instead of a business man, he was to economically ignorant to know what a disaster this was pre ordained to be.
Occams Razor….
Occams Razor doesn't work with your theory because you have to envision a convoluted series of events whereby someone who became an acknowledged "conservative" justice, of the Supreme Court, went through life conveniently missing out on the simplest economic lessons that all conservatives understand along the way. We are to believe that he was hired into the Reagan Justice Department run by the truest of conservatives, served on the DC Circuit judge and ruled consistently as a thinking conservative and somehow along the way he missed out on an understanding of all that is wrong with socialized medicine and an overpowering Federal Government ordering its citizens to buy certain things? I have met several of these conservative beltway DOJ attorneys and circuit court judges and trust me when I say they are the sharpest of the sharp at every level. If you are going to use Occams Razor you can't decide that there is a convenient void of ignorance in the otherwise broad intellect of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to explain your theory.