I read the ACA (all 2,000 pages of it). I read the full Supreme Court testimony on the ACA. I read the full opinion and dissent. There is no logical or legal justification for the Roberts decision. That law is fundamentally unconstitutional on the grounds presented before the Court. Roberts was wrong, and he’s smart enough that his error could not have been an accident; he chose to rule in violation of the Constitution.
It may be that Roberts will rule the ACA unconstitutional on other grounds in a future case, but that will not change the facts. Either for personal reasons (including perhaps blackmail), or for political reasons, Roberts failed to uphold his professional responsibility in that ruling.
A friend of mine, a lawyer in DC, thinks Roberts didn’t want to make the court look like a wing of the Republican Party by striking down the ACA all at once, but will instead undermine it in a series of smaller decisions until it becomes untenable.
I didn’t realize SCOTUS ruled on the Constitutionality of Obamacare. I thought they ruled on the mandate.
Blackmail is the ONLY answer here since Roberts IS SMART.