Obamacare dissent suggests Roberts switched sides

Some legal scholars believe that the wording of Justice Anthony Kennedy's dissenting opinion of the Obamacare case suggests that a late change was made by Chief Justice John Roberts. Photo Credit:AP
As National Review's Ed Whelan, the Volokh Conspiracy's David Bernstein, and others are pointing out, the dissent refers to another opinion as "the dissent" and uses the pronoun "we," as if speaking for the Court, as majority opinions typically do. In addition, the dissent focuses on the government's arguments, rather than tackling the majority head-on. That suggests that a switch — most likely by the Chief Justice himself — may have come very late in the game, too late to offer more than the most cursory revisions of the opinions in the case.
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