Blackmailed or directly pressured, probably. ---- After Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as âObamaCare,â many wondered if there could be a yet-unknown reason why the Republican-nominated justice made the unexpected decision. On the Glenn Beck radio program Tuesday, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) explained why he believes Roberts was intimidated into changing his vote late in the process, as laid out in his new book Why John Roberts Was Wrong About Healthcare. Leeâs argument is not based on the NSA or its monitoring of the nationâs communication. Rather, Lee said, there are indications that Roberts originally intended to vote against the act, but that a public âcampaign of intimidationâ made him change his mind. First, the senator claimed âthe opinion was written in a way to suggest he switched his vote,â and that the dissenting opinion reads like it was originally written as the majority. He added that several news outlets reported that Roberts did change his vote, based on insider information. Not only that, he said, but the court performed an unusual feat of âlegal gymnasticsâ in upholding the legislation, particularly with regard to whether the fines incurred are or are not taxes. They had to re-write sections of the the bill not once, but twice. Lee continued to say that he has âno evidenceâ that Roberts was being blackmailed, but said that doesnât mean Roberts wasnât under any kind of âdirect pressure.â But even if he wasnât, Lee reminded the Obama administration and Democratic lawmakers were open in their warnings to the court, âdenigrating the authority of the house,â and saying the Supreme Court would become irrelevant if it failed to uphold ObamaCare. The argument that Roberts changed his vote has been made in the past, but is certainly lent additional credibility when a U.S. senator writes a book making the case. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...acare-senator-mike-lee-presents-the-evidence/
the day obama got up and lectured the court making himself look bad. well that sure looked like a signal to me.