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It is very uncommon, in fact extremely rare when one compares the total number of cases the Supreme Court has heard with the number of cases the Court has declared a law unconstitutional. Courts will give a certain amount of deference to laws and consider them constitutional unless proved to be unconstitutional.

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Yes, the federal courts can declare legislation passed by Congress and signed by the President unconstitutional, but someone who has standing to challenge the law must file a suit first (the Supreme Court can't just pluck a bill off the President's desk and start critiquing it). In order to have standing, an individual must be personally, directly and negatively affected by the law in a significant way and there must be an issue that can be remediated by a court. Not all legislation lends itself well to judicial review.

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