"The Affordable Care Act is constitutional in part and unconstitutional in part The individual mandate cannot be upheld as an exercise of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause," Roberts wrote. "That Clause authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce, not to order individuals to engage it. In this case, however, it is reasonable to construe what Congress has done as increasing taxes on those who have a certain amount of income, but choose to go without health insurance. Such legislation is within Congress's power to tax."
So, it's sort of constitutional and sort of unconstitutional and let's have it both ways and have a spending bill originate in the Senate and we'll call it a tax, and we'll let the feds control a huge part of the economy because that's what the founders would want.
I call it having it both ways. And I think the court is cowardly to do so.
Reads like a typical opinion to me. Your selection, that is. I didn’t read the opinion (my fault), and would have to read the dissents to form my own.
Isn't there a case wending its way through the process on that? That one will be interesting. Not pinning my hopes on it, mind you.