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To: OldCorps

What most people are not picking up on is this from the dissent:

““Finally, we must observe that rewriting §5000A as a tax in order to sustain its constitutionality would force us to confront a difficult constitutional question: whether this is a direct tax that must be apportioned among the States according to their population. Art. I, §9, cl. 4. Perhaps it is not (we have no need to address the point); but the meaning of the Direct Tax Clause is famously unclear, and its application here is a question of first impression that deserves more thoughtful consideration.””

It means that Roberts changed his vote at the last minute. A very unusual occurrence.

Something happened.


7 posted on 06/29/2012 7:19:38 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick
Could it be Roberts was trying to appear thoughtfully indecisive in order to maintain the appearance of objectivity? He kinda did the same thing in the majority opinion for SB1070 - gave the right straws to grasp at while eviscerating the law.

He had all of us fooled up until now but this decision was obviously revealing.

17 posted on 06/29/2012 7:32:54 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: RummyChick

His two ADOPTED children came from Ireland VIA LATIN AMERICA.......WHY via Latin America??????? On his horrible vote against Arizona, this would be the reeason also. Something is fishy and dirty here.


20 posted on 06/29/2012 7:39:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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