The deliberate mischaracterization of the Judicial branch as 'unelected' is a straw man fallacy of the first order being used by Øbama and his cømmunist sycophants to stampede the ignorant.
That it's duplicitous premise has not been fatally attacked here at FR surprises me, and I say that as a man many years removed from academia.
And the true evil of said premise lies not in it's attempt to hoodwink the uninformed re the Supreme Court, but in its brazen frontal assault on the essence of our republican form of government !
Nominees for direct elections for offices from dog catcher to Congress are decided upon by US citizens via a simple majority vote.
Henceforward, those elected are empowered to act on our behalf in their respective posts until such time as their term of office expires.
To wit: under our Constitution, the citizenry elects Senators from each state to represent us in the upper house for terms of six years.
Those Senators, under authority of Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution, must either approve or reject - via a 2/3 majority - any nomination by the Executive for:
Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law.
Nominations for the offices above under A2S2 must therefore, in fact, pass the muster of a 'super majority' (2/3) of our elected Senators to assume their respective posts.
How then is the latter not an example of the very basis of our Founders' desire that we be a Republic ? !
And how is Øbama's brazen attack on the Court's legitimacy not a frontal assault on the very basis of the Republic itself ? ?
Well, you are 100% correct about that. Obama knows good and well how our republic works and his idiotic "straw-man" fallacy was worded that way because he also knows the majority of those who support him are idiots and swallow whatever tea he brews for them. The same goes for his ubiquitous use of the word "unprecedented" - a word he has used to describe his own "audacious" (another favorite word) actions to bolster his elevated opinion of himself. Everything he has done has been called unprecedented and has always been intended to be taken as a positive. In this case, though, he either used the word mistakenly - since it is always on the tip of his tongue anyway - or he wanted to get a rise out of his syncophants about someone else, or something else, acting in the same way for a change, though, in this case, it was negatively.
Obama is not an idiot, even though he does and says some pretty idiotic things, so he knows very well that the court overruling a congressional law is very much in their job description as they determine the constitutionality of lawsuits brought before them every year. He knows very well that HE is elected and HE, as President, nominates Supreme Court justices and that the Senate, ALSO elected, approve or disapprove those nominees. He is playing word games and he knows it, we know it and he knows we know it, but he also knows he'll get away with it anyway. I despise this man more every day!