Having tried to understand Roberts, it seemed he was enabling a poison pill to nobamacare when he got it declared a tax, for the “origination” issue, but if he is now really blocking a suit on origination then that is harder to figure. I still think there is a possibility that he could come out of this smelling like a rose.
That said, I would like to hear what is illegal about the adoption you outlined? The Moms may have been from Ireland, but the adoption is likely legal in Argentina with children born in Argentina.
I think this blackmail theory is a false answer to his motivation and one or more of the other Justices would have called him out about that if there was any factual basis to blackmail.
I have said it before, national Constitutional politics is more a game of chess. We can not figure it out expecting it to be checkers.
“That said, I would like to hear what is illegal about the adoption you outlined? The Moms may have been from Ireland, but the adoption is likely legal in Argentina with children born in Argentina”
I think the Irish govt has a big problem with it. Their law is designed to keep Irish children from being taken out of the contry.