Roberts and Obamacare: What just happened?

Chief Justice--official portrait in judicial robe

(Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, Photographer: Steve Petteway)

What just happened to conservative Chief Shapeshifter, I mean Justice, John Roberts, author of yesterday’s blockbuster majority opinion upholding Obamacare?

Was he kidnapped by aliens?

Is he the conservative Benedict Arnold of the 21st century?

Or was it a political tour de force designed to strengthen both the independence of the judiciary and limited government? That’s the theory being discussed on some of the country’s top legal blogs today.

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