“The arc of justice may be long, but Chief Justice Roberts is bending it towards Rand Paul.”
And, alas, it’s the real Rand Paul, not the civil libertarian ones some people have invented. And, yes, if King v. Burwell is reversed, we’re in a second age of of Lochner. (Ian did leave out my favorite example of the utter incoherence of reactionary jurisprudence of the early 20th century: Hammer v. Dagenhart. Sure, Congress might have limited itself to what the Court itself had repeatedly said was regulating interstate commerce, but Congress could still not do so because…I’m not going to lie to you Marge. Well, goodbye! And using transparently erroneous legal arguments to deny health insurance to 10 million people would fit it nicely next to the use of transparently erroneous legal arguments to help businesses exploit child labor.