The reason he changed his vote at the 11th hour was a form of soft extortion.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg threatened to announce her retirement at the end of this term and give Obama the chance to appoint a new Justice in her place if Obama Care was overturned.
If Roberts changed his vote and not strike down ObamaCare she agreed not to retire until the next Presidential term.
Under the circumstances he did his best to come up with the best possible compromise with Ginsberg - one that put the future of ObamaCare directly in the hands of voters in this next election. The fate of Obama Care is now firmly in the hands of the electorate and 2012 will be a referendum on Obama Care.
Where does this information come from?
(Pinging a few of you to rdcbn’s interesting comment. Don’t know who else to ping. Everyone would be interested in this.)
I just posted this article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2900788/posts
Actually, Justice Roberts Demolished Obama In His Supreme Court Ruling
Business Insider ^ | Jun. 28, 2012, | Grace Wyler
Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:09:26 PM by little jeremiah
....But while Roberts may have saved Obama’s signature domestic legislation — and perhaps his reelection campaign — by siding with the court’s liberal wing, he actually did it in spite of Obama, not because of him.
Roberts’ opened his opinion today by declaring, unequivocally, that the individual mandate — which requires people to buy insurance or pay a penalty — is not constitutional under the Commerce Clause or the Necessary and Proper Clause. It’s a direct shot at the Obama administration’s defense of the law’s constitutionality, which largely relied on those two clauses, which give Congress the power to regulate commerce and to enact provisions that are necessary to carry out its laws, respectively.
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Please, Ruthie is a flaming leftists, and her little barry bastard commie demigod would try to appoint an equally leftist enemy, so how is that extortion? Don’t give the pirate Roberts the benefit of any doubt. He serves the enemies of this Republic and has little or no regard for the Constitution. In the last three rulings you should know now what he is in his black heart!
And you know this how?
Do you have a source or ref. for that?