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Republican front-runner Mitt Romney disputed on Tuesday President Obama's charge that the Supreme Court would make an "activist" decision in overturning his signature healthcare reform legislation, saying "the court is doing the job they were put in place to do."

The former Massachusetts governor argued that the president's argument didn't hold true because if the court strikes down the individual mandate, "that will not be an activist court, that will be a court following the Constitution, which is precisely what they were designed to do."

"I think it's quite a curious turn of events for him to be complaining about an activist court ... an activist court is one that departs from the Constitution and begins legislating from the bench, that's what we've been complaining about for years" he said during an appearance on Fox News. "In this case, the court is doing the job they were put in place to do."

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