When Chief Justice John Roberts upheld the Patient Affordability Care Act, many of us considered him derelict in his duty to enforce the Constitution. He engaged in judicial activism to give the appearance of avoiding judicial activism. He wrote:
"Members of this Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation's elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."
In that same opinion, Roberts engaged in the remarkable act of redefining the individual mandate as a tax in order to uphold ObamaCare.
President Obama's bullying the Supreme Court seemed to work on Roberts. Obama may have the last laugh -- yet again -- on the chief justice.
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