{"id":14865,"date":"2012-06-28T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14865"},"modified":"2012-06-28T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:44:25","slug":"john-roberts-contortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14865\/john-roberts-contortions\/","title":{"rendered":"John Roberts&#8217; Contortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discuss this bizarre decision <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/john-roberts-contortions-of-lo\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I further note that I was almost right in <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14847\/i-predict-a-muddled-semi-victory-against-obamacares-coercion\/\" target=\"_blank\">my final prediction, below<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Especially: &#8220;<span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;\"> I think this is going to be one of those horribly fractured decisions where observers have trouble making heads or tails of everything. I think there may even be concurrent pluralities rather than a simple majority on at least a couple of the questions presented to the court. In the end, though, I do \u2014 yes, I do \u2014 expect the mandate in this particular form, applied in this particular way, to be adjudged at least partially unconstitutional.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;\">Indeed, the MANDATE was found unconstitutional, but the penalty it carried, treated as a tax, was not. And on the Medicaid issue, there were indeed shifting pluralities rather than a single majority. So I was right on the style of the opinion &#8212; although not on the substance of just how the court would find a way to muck it up beyond ordinary understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discuss this bizarre decision here. I further note that I was almost right in my final prediction, below. Especially: &#8220; I think this is going to be one of those horribly fractured decisions where observers have trouble making heads or tails of everything. I think there may even be concurrent pluralities rather than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[941,35,92],"class_list":["post-14865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-john-roberts","tag-obamacare","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14867,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions\/14867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}