Laurence Tribe: I think my former student, John Roberts, will vote to uphold ObamaCare

Laurence Tribe: I think my former student, John Roberts, will vote to uphold ObamaCare

Hotair ^ | 06/27/2012 | AllahPundit

Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:28:06 AM by SeekAndFind

Via the Examiner, I’ve been looking for tea leaves for you all day but this, unfortunately, is the best I can do. I don’t even regard it as tea leaves: I think Tribe is just pre-spinning the outcome so that, if the mandate is struck down, he can call Roberts a disappointment who betrayed his education in a fit of ideological pique, etc etc etc.

isdees (Photo credit: GunnyG1345)

 

But we’re starving for insight and this is, in its own lame way, an insight into Roberts’ thinking. As is this:

John Roberts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Eastman, a critic of the health care law, said he wouldn’t be surprised to see Roberts side with the Obama administration and uphold the law. “He’s a creature of the Washington administrative state. That’s his background,” the professor said, noting that Roberts has spent almost his entire professional life in Washington.

Scalia’s background is Beltway-heavy too yet his vote against ObamaCare seems a fait accompli.

More unconvincing tea leaves? Okay, how about the idea that Roberts’ vote in the Arizona case with Kennedy and the liberals presages a similar outcome on ObamaCare?

What the Arizona compromise will augur for the most closely watched case of the term is anyone’s guess. Yet the justices’ evident search for……….

EXCERPT

via Laurence Tribe: I think my former student, John Roberts, will vote to uphold ObamaCare.

Related articles

beerdrinkundawg (Photo credit: GunnyG1345)

drronpaulrev (Photo credit: GunnyG1345)

 

• Laurence Tribe: I think my former student, John Roberts, will vote to uphold ObamaCare (hotair.com)
• Justiceline: June 27, 2012 (thinkprogress.org)
• Laurence Tribe says Obama “didn’t say what he meant” about the Supreme Court and needs to “clarify.” (althouse.blogspot.com)
• John Roberts’s big moment (politico.com)
• Law Scholars Say Obamacare Is Constitutional; Expect Rejection By Supreme Court (theobamacrat.com)

• 

  realobam (Photo credit: GunnyG1345)

• Download Carnival of mirrors: Laurence Tribe’s “Unbearable Wrongness”.(response to article in this issue, p. 571): An article from: Constitutional Commentary e-book (fzkedeoa.typepad.com)
• Kathleen Parker: “The Public Trial of Justice Roberts” (volokh.com)
• Obama Made A Strong First Impression At Harvard (npr.org)
• Laurence Tribe’s transporting flackitude (tigerhawk.blogspot.com)
• Will John Roberts Vote to Uphold ObamaCare? (reason.com)

• 

  gophum (Photo credit: GunnyG1345)