[Political Junkie Too]

Roberts used the line to argue that it “is implausible that Congress meant the Act to operate” in a manner to limit the subsidies only to those states with state-operated exchanges... He’s probably right...

He's not right. He's lying.

Roberts already knows that Congress acted in a coercive manner when in 2012 he struck down the linking of all Medicaid funds to accepting the Medicaid expansion for Obamacare.

It's disingenuous to now say that Congress would never have forced the states to create exchanges this way, when he struck down a similar scheme already.

-PJ

[cuban leaf]

Roberts already knows that Congress acted in a coercive manner when in 2012 he struck down the linking of all Medicaid funds to accepting the Medicaid expansion for Obamacare.

It’s disingenuous to now say that Congress would never have forced the states to create exchanges this way, when he struck down a similar scheme already.

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Exactly. Which means he’s doing it for reasons unknown. We can only speculate. But the bottom line is that it is absurd on the face of it. You know it, I know it and he knows it. And he knows we know. Which means he’s willing to sacrifice his and the court’s credibility for something even more valuable, or pressing.

I wish I could see this from the eyes of ten years from now. I suspect I do though, or at least am on the right track.