SCOTUS Justice John Roberts chooses restraint over history
Photo credit: AP | An artist's rendering shows Chief Justice John Roberts, center, speaking at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. From left are Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito Jr., and Elena Kagan. The Court, in a 5-4 decision, largely let stand President Barack Obama's health care reform law, with Roberts casting the key vote, against party lines. (June 28, 2012)
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If the U.S. Supreme Court had wanted to make history, it could have: Striking down the individual mandate in the health-care law would have been the most weighty Supreme Court ruling since Franklin Roosevelt’s first New Deal was ruled unconstitutional three-quarters of a century ago.
By upholding the individual mandate -- after honestly acknowledging that making people buy insurance is a tax...
