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The federal judge set to issue one of the first decisions on the Obama administration's health care law has financial ties to both the attorney general who is challenging the law and to a powerhouse conservative law firm whose clients include prominent Republican officials and critics of reform.
Judge In Health Care Lawsuit, Has Financial Ties To Attorney General Bringing The Case
Seeded on Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:50 PM EDT
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This week, District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson is likely to render a procedural verdict on the Virginia Attorney General's lawsuit which contends that the federal health care overhaul is unconstitutional. The Bush appointee has been hearing oral arguments in his Richmond courtroom dating back to March. His verdict could serve as an important template for more than a dozen other states following Virginia's lead.
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A powerhouse Republican online communications firm, Campaign Solutions, has done work for a host of prominent Republican clients and health care reform critics, including the RNC and NRCC (both of which have called, to varying degrees, for health care reform's repeal). The president of the firm, Becki Donatelli, is the wife of longtime GOP hand Frank Donatelli, and is an adviser to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, among others.
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#1 - Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:51 PM EDTWe'll wait most expectantly for the partisans on the right to demand the judge recuse himself for his conflict of interest. They do it at every instance of a Democratic judge who presides over a case that might impact a conservative case, so I'm sure they'll respond with equal outrage here. Being that they're most concerned about fairness.
/sarc off
- 4 votes
#3 - Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:01 PM EDTHe's using the Dick Cheney/Halliburton excuse to avoid recusing himself...
UPDATE: Campaign Solutions, Inc. sent over the following statement detailing Hudson's investment in the firm.
Judge Hudson has owned stock in Campaign Solutions going back 13 years to the founding of the company or well before he became a federal judge. Since joining the federal bench, he has fully disclosed his stock ownership in the company. He is a passive investor only, has no knowledge of the day to day operations of the firm, and has never discussed any aspect of the business with any official of the company.
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