US supreme court hears Obama healthcare arguments – in pictures

Supreme court protesters point to a Gallup poll that shows 72% of Americans believe the individual mandate to be unconstitutional Photograph: Corbis/Charles E Shoemaker

Rick Santorum makes a speech outside the supreme court in which he criticised Obama and Mitt Romney Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP

Healthcare reform supporters with a painting of House speaker John Boehner outside the supreme court Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

Anti-abortion demonstrators make their point Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

A member of Rick Santorum's staff sets up a backdrop outside the court in Washington Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

A member of"Bound 4 Life protests outside the supreme court Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

Pastor Mark Morrow of the CrossWalk Community Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, right, and Pastor Robert Turrill of Washington, Pennsylvania Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP