What bullhockey. The Founders crafted the Constitution specifically to contain the excesses of democracy. I guess they never envisioned that a succession of Supreme Court justices would simply alter the meaning of words to get around those limits.
No, it is the role of the Court to protect the Constitution that Roberts so brutally betrayed. Roberts has destroyed the Constitution by effectively removing any limit to federal power, and pieces like this article are trying to spin it as if the court is doing us a favor by allowing the federal government to unconstitutionally grab more power.
It is not the job of the court to protect citizens from their own political choices, UNLESS those choices are unconstitutional. Obamacare WAS and IS unconstitutional and the justices that voted for it should be investigated and removed by Congress for abuse of power (and in the case of Kagan, corruption/ethical breaches for not recusing herself, even though she was involved in the government's defense of the law).
” I guess they never envisioned that a succession of Supreme Court justices would simply alter the meaning of words to get around those limits. “
Which is precisely what that fool Roberts did!