badgenome on 28 June 2012
| SamuelRSmith said: As it's a tax, does this mean that they cannot rule on it until it gets enforced? Like 2014? Or is it constitutional, 100% |
That's the interesting thing. According to the majority decision, the case wasn't premature because the mandate wasn't intended by Congress to be a tax. But then as Roberts was writing his opinion, apparently, it somehow became a tax. Talk about legislating from the bench.
