Judge Who Struck Down Health Care Funded Anti-Health Care Candidates

The Virginia judge who declared certain parts of health care reform unconstitutional yesterday is a major stakeholder in a firm that donated money to anti-health care right-wingers like Michelle Bachmann, John Boehner and John McCain. As Gawker digs up, Henry E. Hudson owns up to 50 grand in a GOP consulting firm called Campaign Solutions, Inc, which not only boosted the conservative presence in Congress but also helped Sarah Palin jumpstart her PAC. Meanwhile, the attorney general who filed the suit that prompted Hudson's decision, pumped $9,000 into Campaign Solutions over the past two years. Apparently the ruling was not just hateful, it was potentially corrupt.

Meanwhile, Congresspeople who align themselves with his business' beneficiaries rejoiced all over Washington... even some that were a little confused. Steve Benin points out that Orrin Hatch is at the top of this list––the Senator was a health care bill sponsor in the '90s, but under Obama, he finds it a blight on the constitution. Convenient. And after Judge Hudson's ruling, Hatch gloated on the Senate floor.

"Today is a great day for liberty," said Hatch. "Congress must obey the Constitution rather than make it up as we go along. Liberty requires limits on government, and today those limits have been upheld."

 And as the attorneys in the Virginia case bad-talk the health care plan for being too “big government,” Benin notes that the tenet Judge Hudson struck down––an individual mandate that everyone must purchase the health care insurance––was initially the idea of conservatives like Bob Dole, W, Mitt Romney, even McCain. Funny how that works. Read more at Washington Monthly.