What Judge Alito said, in this dissentingopinion, was that the possession of machine guns wasn't something that Congress could reach under the Commerce Clause.
"To say that the Individual Mandate merely imposes a tax is not to interpret the statute but to rewrite it, " the justices wrote in their dissentingopinion.
U.S., a deportation decision released today, Justice Elena Kagan wrote the opinion with liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg and presumed liberal Sonia Sotomayor dissenting.