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WASHINGTON-- If you wanted to be the last to learn how the Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act Thursday, the steps of the Court were a pretty good place to be. While many Americans were glued to their television screens, or watching the live updates on SCOTUS Blog when the decision to uphold the law came down, hundreds of conservative and liberal demonstrators gathered outside the Court along First Street Northeast, where mass confusion reigned on a sweltering day. Facing the Court, liberal demonstrators filled the left side of the steps, anti-abortion protesters gathered in the middle and tea partiers waving yellow Gadsden flags chanted on the right. Tourists and onlookers stood in front of the building on both sides of the street. Near the center of the Court's marble steps, pastors knelt on black pads with Bibles open on the ground as they prayed for the law to be struck down. Belly dancers wearing red and gold traditional garb grooved in front of a...