Over the past month, Chief Justice John Roberts may have changed his mind on Obamacare. CBS news is reporting that Roberts initially sided with the Conservatives on the court to strike down the entirety of President Obama's Affordable Care Act, before changing his mind and switching sides a few weeks ago to uphold the law. According to CBS, Roberts kept a close eye on media coverage of the court leading up to the decision - and one source close to the court suggested that Roberts may have changed his vote to keep the court's reputation intact. But ultimately, Roberts did Conservatives a huge favor whether they realize it or not. By upholding Obamacare, Roberts kept in place the for-profit health insurance system, which could have been overturned in a few years, had the healthcare crisis in America continued without action. And - most importantly - by designating the individual mandate as a tax, Roberts gave Republicans a chance to repeal Obamacare through reconciliation - meaning Republicans would only need a simple majority in the Senate to get rid of the law - no filibuster allowed.

Brian Darling, Heritage Foundation & Sam Sacks, progressive commentator & SE Robinson, Freelance Journalist join Thom Hartmann. Yesterday - the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare - a law that will help the lives of millions of Americans. But - despite it's wide impact - Republicans are still full steam ahead when it comes to repealing the law. Why? That and more in tonight's Big Picture Rumble...

If you think the Supreme Court's ruling that Obamacare is constitutional is the end of the debate, think again. This is one of those cases where history has a HUGE lesson to teach us. Back before 1973, abortion was illegal nationwide. I'm old enough to remember a girl in my highschool in Lansing, Michigan who, in 1967, died of sepsis from an illegal abortion. One day she was there, and a week later she was dead. Her dad worked at Oldsmobile and had health insurance, but it didn't cover abortions because they were illegal. The rich girls had their parents get them a D&C operation in the hospital, and everybody knew that when a 17-year-old girl was "getting a D&C," it was code for an early-term abortion. But this girl's parents didn't have the money to pay for a hospital procedure that wasn't covered by insurance, so she tried the coat hanger method, and died. Many people old enough to remember 1973 can tell you similar stories. Back in 1973, many, many Americans knew similar stories - for example, Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell had a clerk whose girlfriend died from a botched self-administered abortion, and Powell helped him cover it up. Which is why when the Supreme Court struck down the nation's anti-abortion laws in 1973 in Roe v. Wade, well over half of Americans agreed with the decision. So when Roe v. Wade was decided, Democrats figured that was the end of the issue. The Supreme Court had spoken. Let's move ahead, they said, and deal with bigger issues, like the ...

Here's my take on Thursday's Supreme Court ruling...it never should have happened. Everything about Thursday, from Fox and CNN screwing up the ruling early on to the hours of punditry that followed to the competing speeches from Mitt Romney and President Obama, none of it should have happened. None of it should have happened because our democracy settled this issue more than two years ago when after a year of debate our elected Members of Congress passed Obamacare with a majority in both the House and the Senate, and that law was signed by our elected President of the United States.That's how our democracy works. We elect people to write and pass laws, and then we keep electing them or we elect someone else to do the same job. But what happened Thursday was not an exercise in democracy - it was an exercise in monarchy. Despite our democracy settling this issue, here we all were two years later waiting to hear from the modern day Oracles at Delphi. Our news media, our elected politicians, and the tens of millions of Americans who finally had some reprieve thanks to Obamacare, were forced to wait at the steps of the Supreme Court building where nine unelected justices would, like kings and queens, give their ultimate say about the trivial concerns of the People. What happened today reveals a deep flaw in our system of government - a flaw that was created more than 200 years ago.