The legal definition of a conservative Justice is far different from the political definition used by most folks here.
As I said in my original post I think the Chief Justice views his role as keeping the SC out of cases that are the responsibility of the elected officials to work out.
The congress in the last 40 years have been the kids in the first grade fighting in the sandbox and the SC has become the overzealous parent trying to make everything OK.
Roberts is saying nutz to that...
I disagree. He went out of his way to change the existing law. He determined that Congress and the President really meant to call the “penalty” associated with the mandate a “tax”. Tada - he rewrote the law to make obama care work in his mind.
That’s not conservative....that’s activist. A conservative justice would have let it fail as is, not try to “correct” the law to somehow make it COnstitutional in his mind.