Conservatives question chief justice’s motive for upholding health-care law
WASHINGTON (MCT) — Conservative attacks on Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. spread over the weekend in response to suspicions that he may have switched his vote on the health-care law, voting initially to strike down the individual mandate before concluding it could be upheld as a tax.
Critics on the legal right accused Roberts of bowing to political pressure.
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