So he could write the opinion. (He out ranks them all.) It was a situation of “give em what they want, while exposing the fraud. Do you think Kagan, Soto or Ginsburg would have exposed the TAX, the fraud and turned the power back to the congress and therefore the people?
You’re not seeing the forest for the trees.
What I see is that Roberts had the chance to kill it dead, and he didn’t do it.