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Here’s President Obama trying to put some pressure on the justices:

“Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”

Let’s ignore the demagogue in those words for a second and focus on the facts – the health care bill was passed by the House 219-212, which is hardly a “strong majority”. Sure, it cleared the Senate with a supermajority of 60-39. Keep in mind though, since we are talking about “democracy” here, the House is supposed to be the “truer” (however you want to define that) representative of the American People. And, if President Obama was actually referring to the supermajority in the Senate, what would he have to say about the fact that the law suite he was commenting on was brought on by 26 states – as in, more than half of the states?