The U.S. Supreme Court isn’t expected to rule on the constitutionality of President Obama’s national health care law until Thursday, but liberals have stepped up their efforts to delegitimize the Supreme Court as nakedly partisan in the event that it strikes down all or part of the law.

New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait declared that “the constitutionality of the individual mandate is so obvious that the mere fact that the controversy exists suggests a frightening will to power by the legal arm of the conservative movement.” At last week’s Take Back the American Dream conference of liberal activists, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., told the audience that any decision against the law should viewed in the context of the court being “a wholly owned subsidiary of the right wing.” Not to be outdone, James Fallows wrote at the Atlantic that if the court finds the law unconstitutional, it will be a sign that the country is experiencing a “long-term coup.”