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The Inside Story on How Roberts Changed His Supreme Court Vote on Obamacare - Forbes
Well, no wonder Scalia was so freakin pissed on the AZ ruling. He was just perma-pissed over the ACA situation.
The Obamacare Supreme Court ruling seemed strange. Chief Justice John Roberts reasoning was incoherent. The conservatives dissent read like it was originally meant to be a majority opinion. Now, we know why. According to Jan Crawford of CBS News, John Roberts switched sides in May, withstanding a one-month campaign from his conservative colleagues to change his mind.
I am told by two sources with specific knowledge of the courts deliberations that Roberts initially sided with the conservatives in this case and was prepared to strike down the individual mandate, said Crawford on CBS Face the Nation. But Roberts, Im told by my sources, changed his views, deciding to instead join with the liberals. There was a one-month campaign to bring Roberts back into the conservative fold, led, ironically, by Anthony Kennedy.
That explains what I was hearing a few weeks ago. I reported, from third-hand sources, that the conservatives were furiously lobbying each other on the issue of severability of the individual mandate from the rest of Obamacare. It turns out that this reporting was accurate, but that Roberts then changed his mind and joined the liberals. Subsequently, the conservatives started lobbying Roberts to stay with them on the laws unconstitutionality.
Well, no wonder Scalia was so freakin pissed on the AZ ruling. He was just perma-pissed over the ACA situation.