Henry E. Hudson

Health Care Judge's Interest In Anti-Health Care PR Shop Raises Questions

Ryan J. Reilly | December 13, 2010, 5:02PM

Federal judge Henry Hudson at a court in Richmond, Va., 2010.

Federal judge Henry E. Hudson's ownership of a stake worth between $15,000 and $50,000 in a GOP political consulting firm that worked against health care reform -- the very law against which he ruled today -- raises some ethics questions for some of the nation's top judicial ethics experts. It isn't that Hudson's decision would have necessarily been influenced by his ownership in the company, given his established track record as a judicial conservative. But his ownership stake does create, at the very least, a perception problem for Hudson that could affect the case.

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