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Neo– On the up-side, it got me digging to find reliable confirmation before I posted. 🙂 I’m surprised that some of the actually smart commenters did not see it before I did. In my working life, these things were called “alertness checks”.

You are correct. I don’t know why I switched Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Will fix.

I see other sources (Branco) say the dissent was Alito, Thomas, and Kavanugh… Gorsuch joined the liberals.

Yes, Roberts is very Humpty-Dumptyish on the definition of “tax.”

Indeed, Chief Justice Roberts is multitalented, a legislator and jurist, just seemingly immune from political considerations (sarc).

—John Turley

Reminds me of Roberts dodge that the Obamacare mandate was a “tax” and therefore under the authority of Congress.

The central legal debate over Obamacare’s individual mandate was whether Congress could constitutionally require Americans to buy health insurance under its power to regulate interstate commerce.

The Supreme Court, in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012), decided: the individual mandate could not be justified under the Commerce Clause.

Later Roberts argued that the mandate penalty was not a penalty but a tax, thereby deciding the Court’s landmark decision in favor of Obamacare.

I always saw that as Roberts’ hypocritical effort to shield the Court from accusations of playing politics by … playing politics.

It’s particularly dangerous for the right to to trash the Supreme Court for limiting the power of the executive. SCOTUS typically acts as a limitation on the ambitions of the left. With the exception of Trump’s tariff nonsense, the right really needs SCOTUS to continue credibly performing that role.