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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid hell just freeze over? Roberts siding with the progressive justices?
I'm not sure if this is a matter of him actually siding with the progressive justices, or if it's his way of supporting the corporate insurance interests.
Hopefully it's the former, and hopefully it's a sign that he could wind up leaning more to the left. How delicious would that be, the neo-cons losing yet another of their SCOTUS judges!
Skinner
(63,645 posts)Maybe he judged the case on its merits.
MrsBrady
(4,187 posts)I'm just glad he ruled in the right direction.
Motives matter...but sometimes you should just say, in this case...whew!
Shrek
(3,986 posts)They would have upheld the PPACA on commerce clause grounds, which Roberts rejected.
The only way to get a majority was for them to agree to the tax argument (the only ground the Chief would accept).
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Romulox
(25,960 posts)emulatorloo
(44,276 posts)Scalia is very very unhappy too
Romulox
(25,960 posts)emulatorloo
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Romulox
(25,960 posts)emulatorloo
(44,276 posts)So do you.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)emulatorloo
(44,276 posts)Roberts vote is an outlier. I have no clue why he voted with Justice Ginsberg.
All the rest of conservatives and insurance cos want it gone. They recognize that Obamacare is putting us one step closer to single payer.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)He would have taken Roger B. Taney's place in history had his court ruled incorrectly on this one, too.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)A giant windfall for insurance corporations.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Makes sense to me. Scalia's little toddler tantrum was also a clue.
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)as to what is really going on here, then there really is no hope for us.
What a corporate scam.
emulatorloo
(44,276 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Roberts never met a corporation he didn't like. Rocket science, it ain't.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)So now people are trying to show off the penmanship on this contract with the devil and asking us to forget that we ever heard the story of Faust.
emulatorloo
(44,276 posts)This time he did not vote with the right wingers.
I doubt there is a single DU'er who believes he has "changed" because of this vote.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)and decided the case according to the Constitution.