Judge who ruled against ACA has blocked other Obama policies
Source: Associated Press
Judge who ruled against ACA has blocked other Obama policies
Associated Press
Sat 15 Dec 2018 13.13 GMT
US district Judge Reed O’Connor, who ruled the Affordable Care Act “invalid” Friday, is no stranger to the conservative resistance to Obama administration policies.
O’Connor, 53, is a former state and federal prosecutor who was nominated to the federal bench in 2007 by George W Bush. He has been active in the Federalist Society, which describes itself as “a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order”.
In 2014, the Fort Worth-based judge upheld the constitutionality of an Arlington ordinance that bars people from handing out printed material at busy intersections and roads. The lawsuit had been brought by a gun-rights group called Open Carry Tarrant County. Although he upheld the ordinance, O’Connor ordered the city to pay the group’s coordinator $42,251 in damages.
That same year, he sentenced a man to more than 15 years in federal prison for kidnapping and severely beating a gay man he met through an online service, concluding the assailant kidnapped the man because of his sexual orientation.
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