"'... I differ with him on this opinion,' Hatch said from the Senate floor. 'On the other hand, it is a very clever opinion ...'"

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COMMENTS: 
*  when you are named "judge" it's supposed to mean you make decisions on merit, not political alliance. Roberts has always done so.... I may be a democrat but, I appreciate a "judge" who could care less!
*  Gimme a break.  You just don't like the decision and, like a typical Republic party extremist, can't stand anything the president does.  BTW - you agree that Cruz is INELIGIBLE to be president, right? We've seen his birth certificate. He's not a natural born citizen, correct?
*  Words do matter. 4 words don't overturn 2300 pages of words saying the opposite. A typo. Loser idiots.
*  I love it when republicans eat their own.
*  I don't agree with Orrin Hatch on much, but he is an honorable man. All of the negative comments directed at him are nothing but sour grapes over the fact that the tea party and like-minded "patriots" weren't able to defeat him at the ballot box. It's that simple.  Additionally, the vast majority of you railing against Roberts and the Court don't have a clue about statutory interpretation or case law. You're speaking out of ignorance - you might disagree with the Chief's interpretation of the law but you don't do yourself any favors when you misconstrue the entire concept of judicial review.
*   In this back-handed compliment Oren Hatch showed that he too is a very clever fellow. There is nothing wrong with respecting the intelligence of an enemy, its often wiser to give them more respect than they deserve, than to give them less respect and be caught by surprise.  This was an insult in which Hatch was saying that Roberts', (et al's) ruling was the result of bias, not a faithful interpretation of law and that to him, that bias came as no surprise.
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Hatch praises Roberts as ‘remarkable judge’
By Jordain Carney, June 25, 2015



Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Thursday praised Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as a “remarkable” and “tremendous” jurist who wrote a “clever” opinion upholding a key provision of ObamaCare.

"All I can say is that the chief justice is a remarkable judge. He's a tremendous human being. I have a tremendous confidence in him and I believe in him. I differ with him on this opinion," Hatch said from the Senate floor. "On the other hand, it is a very clever opinion, and I have to say only a clever judge could have written it as well."

Roberts authored the 6-3 decision handed down earlier Thursday that upheld federal healthcare insurance subsides under the Affordable Care Act. The ruling is a major victory for the Obama administration.

Hatch said that he suspected the court would uphold the law because "it's a big enough bill that a really clever judge could find some way of tying in and justifying the decision that they made today."

He added that he has "tremendous respect" for Roberts, who he believed "used his talents to uphold ObamaCare."

It's the second time Roberts has authored a Supreme Court ruling that upheld President Obama's Affordable Care Act. In 2012, he wrote the court's decision that upheld ObamaCare as constitutional.

Hatch said while he's "had colleagues bad-mouth the chief justice because of his vote in the original case, which was the deciding vote … I've never really found fault with that. I felt like was more interested in not having a 5-4 decision."

Despite his praise for Roberts, the Utah Republican disavowed the court's Thursday ruling, saying that justices "deduced to rule against common sense and the plain meaning of statutory language."
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