[Girlene]

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.

[montanajoe]

The lawyers that brief these cases bring in all possible ways to uphold a stature that they can think of. Conservative Justices will uphold a law on any grounds they can and defer to the legislative body.
If you note the dissents they were very respectful of the CJ.

When I saw Scalia go off in the Arizona case on Monday I figured Obamacare was going to be upheld, Scalia and the other conservative Justices respect the CJ and understand both his reasoning and his concern for the Court IMHO..

[GlockThe Vote]

End of thread. Bingo.

[uncbob]

Is this crazy

The GOP was warning that it was in reality a TAX and Obama and the DEMs arguing that it wasn’t

So Roberts says the GOP was right and Obama was wrong so it is constitutional

My brain hurts

[Bshaw]

[...“penalty” associated with the mandate a “tax”. Tada - he rewrote the law to make obama care work in his mind.”

Since congress sets the courts jurisdiction, perhaps they should remove jurisdiction from the courts of any law where a tax is not stated as a “tax” within said law.

Was Roberts hypnotized? Seduced? Did Kagan and Sotomayor disrobe and give him some hooha to see things their way? Ginsburg?

The ruling is disconnected entirely from the spoken arguments.

Nothing in this ruling makes sense.... It’s the most mindless thing I’ve read in a long time.