Wikileaks reveal Obama coerced Justice Roberts to pass Obamacare

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[MNDude]

"it was pretty critical that the President threw the gauntlet down last time on the Court, warning them in the first case that it would politicize the role of the Court for them to rule against the ACA. As a close reader of the case, I honestly believe that was vital to scaring Roberts off"

[Secret Agent Man]

Threatening his family was vital.

He should have manned up and exposed it all.

[Fido969]

Need something specific - death theats? Gays in the closet? Just being President Stompy Foot is not going to cut it.

[Alberta's Child]

... the President threw the gauntlet down last time on the Court, warning them in the first case that it would politicize the role of the Court for them to rule against the ACA.

This was a threat? Oh, please.

[Ken H]

But I thought John Roberts left a diabolically clever trap in his decision that would undermine the whole thing? </Krauthammer et al

[Bullish]

And if this upcoming stolen election reaches this supreme court Roberts will be ‘persuaded’ to side with the democrats. That's why Scalia was taken out of the way. We think it's 4-4 but with a compromised Roberts it's actually 5-3 for their side now.

[Eddie01]

How do you get to be chief justice when you rule against the Constitution on your first landmark case?

Ask yourself that specifics boy.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The entire D.C. needs to be nuked from orbit.

[Bayard]

Check to see if there’s mention of Scalia’s Body post assassination.

My bet is that it was death threats to family plus assassination and replacement with a judge who would.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well it was reflected in the way he talked in his opinion, that the political branch should answer such questions, as if the constitution didn’t even figure. It’s a tax, except when it is not a tax.

[AndyJackson]

The role of the court was “politicized” when it was written into the constitution as a coequal branch of government.

[Grampa Dave]

But. I thought John Roberts left a diabolically clever trap in his decision that would undermine the whole thing? Krauthammer et al.

We remember Krautty and his loyal GOPe butt boys writing for NR and the trolls of FR telling us that Roberts had left a trap for Obama care to scuttle it.

We are still waiting.

[Alberta's Child]

Well, that part of his opinion was correct.

It's not the Supreme Court's job to fix sh!tty legislation. It can only decide cases on constitutional grounds.

[jeffo]

It’s the only way to be sure...

[HiTech RedNeck]

This was an achilles heel. A tie breaker would have been a good idea like the Bork Amendment.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Whether that should truly apply, however, was denied by 4 of the other justices. I’m not sure how they would have been wrong, not just a minority.

[SweetPatriot84]

I don’t see any coercion.

[17th Miss Regt]

Yep. Threatening the court would be politicized by an adverse decision is not a threat.

But threatening to take his children away and send them back to Ireland was sufficient. That is what persuaded him.

[17th Miss Regt]

See post 18. Roberts had not properly adopted his two children. Thus he was vulnerable to coercion.

[Rome2000]

I remember back a few years ago when I was concerned about a nuke attack on DC.

I’m now convinced it would be the best thing to happen in the history of the United States.