Why Chief Justice Roberts Won't Side with the Liberals on Obamacare
As we’ve discussed before, Chief Justice Roberts is likely to write the Obamacare opinion for the majority. There’s been some speculation that Roberts could vote with the liberals, if Kennedy voted with them as well, so that Roberts would control the opinion either way. Sean Trende writes insightfully on the topic for Real Clear Politics, explaining why Roberts is very unlikely to do that:
Sean goes on to describe why he thinks that Roberts will vote to overturn all of Obamacare. My prediction, based on Roberts’s questions at oral argument (which is a hardly infallible method), is that the majority will vote to partially overturn the law, most likely by throwing out Title I.
This piece originally appeared in National Review Online
This piece originally appeared in National Review Online