Monday, July 2, 2012

Confirmed? Roberts Switched Vote On Obamacare.

There is now some confirmation that Chief Justice John Roberts switched his vote on Obamacare in what some are calling an attempts to reputation of the Supreme Court as nonpartisan. I say he caved in to Obama's pressure and further damaged the reputation of the Supreme Court. Roberts betrayed both the Constitution and Conservatives who gave him his job.

Via Beltway Confidential:
Chief Justice John Roberts voted against Obamacare, but then — in a move that angered his conservative colleagues — switched his vote as he became convinced that a 5-4 ruling against the law would damage the reputation of the Supreme Court.
Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy went through weeks of debate with each other, as Kennedy tried to convince Roberts to strike down the law and Roberts wrangled with Kennedy to create a 6-3 majority in support of the bill, “two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations,” told CBS News.
That sequence of events tracks with the external debate about the bill after the court heard oral arguments in March. As observers concluded that the court would overturn the individual mandate, Democrats went on offense.
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