Joining Alito and the majority were Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas.
Chief Justice Roberts, a conservative, flipped that very point around later in the argument.
Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the lead opinion for himself, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy.
Both sides were paying particular attention to Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy.
New Medicaid is "a shift in kind, not merely degree, " Chief Justice Roberts wrote.
The liberal justices' remarks explain Solicitor General Verrilli's conflicted response to Chief Justice Roberts.
At its center lies Justice Roberts's blunt question: Is the American South irredeemably racist?
Justice Kennedy, and to an extent Chief Justice Roberts, seemed to take that position seriously.
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Chief Justice Roberts pointed out that the Constitution does not specifically prohibit taxing inactivity.
Chief Justice Roberts, who worked as a legal and policy aide in the Reagan and George H.
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In fact, Justice Roberts has shown us that the problem is political, and so is the solution.
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Chief Justice ROBERTS: Nobody thinks the law school believes everything that the employers are doing or saying.
Chief Justice Roberts called that stance "totally unprecedented, " in one of several remarks criticizing the Obama administration.
Fixated on its economic and electoral ramifications, many miss the wretched significance of Chief Justice Roberts twisted ObamaCare logic.
More important than that, I do not see our President evincing the integrity that Chief Justice Roberts did.
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Opposite them on the conservative wing are Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice Roberts himself.
That, combined with the fact that Justice Roberts is a much more energetic polemicist than Chief Justice Rehnquist.
Chief Justice Roberts: Well, once you said it is not, and you don't know the answer to it?
Chief Justice Roberts chimed in with this pithy characterization of such a policy.
Technically, Chief Justice Roberts may be correct on relabeling the mandate a tax.
More surprises: The 5-4 vote was the liberal bloc plus Chief Justice Roberts, whose appointment the Democrats nearly blocked.
The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice Roberts, who affirmed the decision along with (generally) Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan.
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If you are searching for someone who will exhibit conduct becoming a stellar executive, look for one like Chief Justice Roberts.
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Chief Justice Roberts has been lambasted from both sides for his conclusion that the health care individual mandate is a tax.
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Chief Justice Roberts tried to rescue Clement at this point, noting that the CSRT procedures were not in place until 2004.
In that way, Chief Justice Roberts reasoned, choosing not to comply with the mandate subjects you to what amounts to a tax.
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Chief Justice Roberts then turned to another point, whether the law schools are being forced to associate themselves with the military's views.
Chief Justice Roberts has basically said that he wants an institutional court and he wants each case decided on its own bottom.
In the majority: Justices Scalia, Alito, Kennedy, Thomas and Chief Justice Roberts.
Justice Roberts was clearly looking for any rationale to uphold the law.
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