His 'logic' gets more and more bizzare the more I think about it. How many times have we seen SCOTUS toss a case because the litigants did not frame their arguments properly? Here, we have the Commerce Clause being used as the primary justification by the government. Tax powers were an afterthought. Yet Roberts changed a mandate/penalty into a tax and found it justified.
To this day, those who crafted the Obamacare monstrosity deny it is a tax. Roberts basically created his own legal argument instead of analyzing what was put before him.
I think he thought about his legacy and what the main stream media and academia would do to it, and he turned chicken.
He scrounged around to find some way to do it but not look like a coward, hence that tortured mess he produced.
I watched some MSNBC this morning, just to torture myself, and as you'd expect they were praising Roberts all day. Talking about how he saved the SC from becoming irrelevant and politicized. How he's a light in Washington. Everything he was hoping they'd say about him.
Funny how conservatives turning liberal is always evidence of being above the fray and noble, while liberals turning conservative are always examples of bribery or corruption.