Our Common Good  Chief Justice John Roberts, wary of the
potential repercussions should he have cast the deciding vote to
nullify the entire Affordable Care Act, backed away from his
initial desire to overturn the law for fear that doing so would
strip the Supreme Court of its nonpartisan authority.  That
revelation is one of a few new insights into the Supreme Court’s
deliberations on the ACA revealed in excerpts, previewed
Saturday by Politico, from a forthcoming book by New Yorker
writer and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. According to
Toobin, Roberts initially wanted to declare the law
unconstitutional, but his position grew “wobbly” as he worried
that making such a seemingly political move at a crucial point
in the presidential race could have undermined the court’s
future credibility.  From the book:   What’s more, Toobin
reports that Roberts’ switch was in part prompted by the Court’s
conservative members’ insistence that he join them in striking
down the entire law.  “The four conservatives had over