Quote: “ Other than your crazed rhetoric, can you point to specific things from the oral argument (that you didn’t listen to) that would support your contention?”
With respect, go back and listen to Roberts during the Obamacare argument. Then, read his opinion. He was clearly leaning toward holding that Obamacare was not authorized by the Commerce Clause. But what happened in the interim was he became intimidated by threats. Thus we got the fee not a tax crap and some dicta about the Court not resolving everyone’s political issues.
I have been involved in and seen plenty of oral arguments where the opinion didn’t match with the expectations created by oral argument.
Today’s oral argument would lead to a belief that this law would be upheld. BUT, Roberts has demonstrated he is a coward who can be intimidated and have his “head turned.” Kavanaugh and Barrett have demonstrated that they can be intimidated by Roberts to go along.
My theory is that their “status” is the vulnerability that makes them do what they do.
May they do the right thing here? Sure. But this would be a bigger decision than ruling in the election cases. How did those go at the Supreme Court?
Once again, are you willing to put money on the line?
The law getting struck down is at 20 cents on Predicit.