I really don't agree, clo.
I think Roberts is sensible enough to recognise his job is not to be a politician.
There are things the democratic process is permitted to achieve. As a supreme court judge, sometimes this means one's own political belief should be set aside.
Roberts did what he believed was the democratic thing. He permitted Congress and the President to enact a law that it is within its scope to enact. SCOTUS is not the opposition party.
Obviously he doesn't like it. But it is not the job of the Supreme Court to like or dislike policy. It is to say whether the Constitution admits it.
The fact the court divides so often along party lines tells you that most of what they are deciding is party political. True in this case also.
He voted to allow the government to govern because they won the right to do so at the ballot box. I think this was a highly principled decision. The Supreme Court should not strike down a law like this along party lines. If it did, why bother writing law as a Democrat? Why vote at all?
It is, after all, a kind of tax. With an exemption for those who pay for health insurance.
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