The score in the courts is now 3 – 2 in favor of Obama’s health care law, with federal judges appointed by Democrats having upheld the law’s constitutionality and federal judges appointed by Republicans having found it unconstitutional. The latest ruling came yesterday:

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit claiming that President Barack Obama’s requirement that all Americans have health insurance violates the religious freedom of those who rely on God to protect them.

Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this,...