Why did the SC Re-write OCare to Pass it, but not Stolen Valor law? (Obama, constitution)

[BucsLose]

Clearly Roberts re-wrote the law to make it a tax, when it was a mandate, in order to justify passing it. The struck down the Stolen Valor law because it was not written as someone making monetary gain, etc by lying about medals, etc.

Why didnt they just do the same thing they did with Obamacare? Re-write it, redefine it so they could justify passing it?

They already failed as court to uphold their oaths for one law, they might as well did the same for the other law.

[KickAssArmyChick]

Under which clause of the Constitution would you justify the Stolen Valor law not being struck down?

[BucsLose]

KAAC,

What i was trying to get at, is that they went out of their way to basically re-word the bill to justify passing it. If I heard correctly, they said they couldve passed the Valor bill if it had been written to stop those trying to gain monetarily. Roberts obviously felt that he couldnt be the one to kill the bill, so he re-wrote it. Why didnt they do the same thing with the Valor bill? Or most bills? Why was it okay to do it for this one, but not others.

It's either acceptable by law to do what he did, or it isnt