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In reply to the discussion: Report: Sources say Roberts switched vote in healthcare case [View all]rocktivity
(44,573 posts)25. SWITCHED views?
Last edited Thu Jun 25, 2015, 02:37 PM - Edit history (9)
"...Roberts was against the individual mandate when the justices took their initial votes following oral arguments in March. He, along with the other four Republican appointees, believed it was an inappropriate use of Congresss power to regulate commerce...But the justices did not reach an agreement on how much of the law to strike down...(T)he conservative bloc pushed hard to throw out the entire statute...Roberts...voted to uphold the law...
Roberts did NOT "change his mind" about striking down the law, only the mandate. He upheld the mandate by defining it as a tax -- by CBS's own admission, Roberts was NEVER against the rest of ACA. Apparently leaks to sympathetic media was part of the "conservative bloc's" campaign to get Roberts to "switch views" -- up to and including insinuations about his health by referring to him as "wobbly." Most important, keep in mind that the "sources" for the CBS story could very well be the conservative judges themselves.
Another piece of political mythology is born, like Al Gore's invention of the Internet.
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least he could do after citizens united. I am sure his ass is still stinging from that
roguevalley
Jul 2012
#22
So the conservative four couldn't be arsed to make sure their opinion was free of indications
Bolo Boffin
Jul 2012
#2
I just finished it too. Excellent piece. I don't consider the information "leaked" since...
Poll_Blind
Jul 2012
#5
Exactly, because if his conviction from the outset was that he was adamantly against all of it
Puzzledtraveller
Jul 2012
#14
Maybe. But he could've struck down the mandate only. I didn't know he had epilepsy.
Honeycombe8
Jul 2012
#17
I don't know that I believe that. The only ones to leak would be the Justice's staffers.
Honeycombe8
Jul 2012
#16
If the 4 teabagging Justices have expelled Roberts, we should welcome him and ask him to
Woody Woodpecker
Jul 2012
#19
It was ROBERTS and KENNEDY doing a tandem stranglehold on both sides of the decision writing
UTUSN
Jul 2012
#20
Over the next six weeks, as Roberts began to craft the decision striking down the mandate,
rocktivity
Jul 2012
#21