IMO, the most likely scenario for Justice Roberts, is to issue a non answer ruling such as;

[CK_John]

The Court will admit that the intent was to allow the Fed to provide subside in case the state failed to extend Medicaid but they didn't actually put it in the law. But..the court will allow Congress to fix the law before the next enrollment period to avoid cutting off funding.

Next of course Mitt Romney will come to the rescue and claim he has a secret plan to save ACA since he invented it and will use the Mass plan as a model.

"Moderate Mitt" will then become the candidate and the turnout will be 85% instead of 35%.

[randys1]

1. Cons will say elect us or we take your hc away from you, brilliant, take us as hostages

cons will refuse to allow ACA to go forward unless we elect them

how does roberts do that?

[Fred Sanders]

2. Excellent and succinct analysis, the court will punt it back to Congress, keep subsidies in place

until the fix...that should be fun.

[CK_John]

3. The fix date would be around Dec 7th, after the election.

[Fred Sanders]

4. I am going to bookmark this thread for the ruling in June, fix after the election seems right.

[elleng]

5. You've been smoking WHAT, exactly???

I don't mean to dump on you, thanks for your thoughtful positive approach, but I expect NOTHING from Mr. Justice Roberts or the rest of the 'majority' to help save the ACA.

[CK_John]

6. I don't smoke or drink or use non persciption drugs.

[elleng]

7. Good for you.

I think you're rather optimistic here.

[CK_John]

8. I just wanted that on the record but they have control of both houses so now

they can do a 180 pivot and put Mitt in the WH and get ready for 2024.

[randome]

9. Eh. Mitt is going nowhere. But I admit your theory for Roberts is possible.

At this point, however, I don't know what to expect from him.
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[CK_John]

10. Roberts has been hinting he wants to moveon to the big bucks, maybe a VP position.

[cheyanne]

11. Here is a good demolition of the the opponents' arguments using Scalia's own words.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/11/symposium-the-grant-in-king-obamacare-subsidies-as-textualisms-big-test/#more-221106

It's by Abe Gluck at SCOTUSblog.

And here is an analysis of what we can learn from the fact that the court took the case.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/11/symposium-the-court-will-hear-king-thats-bad-news-for-the-aca/#more-221092

[CK_John]

12. You're assuming Scalia has a heart and is a great legal scholar when he may be

consulting with Mel Gibson, or some defrocked Latin mass bishop for his rulings.