What anonymice would spin Roberts’s performance as cowardly and then scuttle behind the protective folds of CBS’s source-protection promise? Who are the Cassius and Brutus inside the court, creeping up behind the chief justice with their verbal daggers?

I wouldn’t know. I do know that CBS’s reporter, Jan Crawford, is a fine journalist whose good relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Tea Party booster and sometime Daily Caller correspondent Ginni Thomas, is widely known around the Supreme Court…

Not explained is why, if the liberals had a craven Roberts on the run, two liberal justices, Stephen G. Breyer and Elena Kagan, felt obliged to switch their positions and join the chief in a 7-2 ruling declaring Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion unconstitutional.