He could have ruled the mandate unconstitutional and still limited the commerce clause. Make no mistake about it...he’s another Souter at worst—Kennedy at best.
There are only 3 Conservative Constitutional judges on the court. We have 4 ultra liberal and 2 liberal/moderate traitors.
When you couple this with Roberts’ vote in the immigration case, I’d have to say that the guy is plainly not very conservative. I wish Bush had appointed another man, a guy with Scalia’s mettle...