The Left keeps saying (as in this article) that a statutory ruling by the Supreme Court in King v. Burwell that the phrase “an Exchange established by the State under section 1311” means, lo and behold, an exchange established by the State under section 1311 “would seriously call into question the legitimacy of the [Supreme Court].”

But somehow we’re supposed to believe that a preposterous constitutional ruling striking down state laws that incorporate the perennial definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman shouldn’t damage the Court’s legitimacy—not even when the deciding vote may well be cast by someone who has shed any pretense of impartiality.