Is It a Conflict?

So is it a problem that Judge Henry Hudson, the Virginia-based federal judge who struck down part of the Health Care Reform law today, is part owner of a GOP consulting firm which spent the last year attacking the Health Care law? Narrowly speaking he’s probably in the clear since the firm is not a direct party to the case. But he’s “treading very close to the line,” one judicial ethics and recusal expert tells TPM.