06-05-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
A Conservative Judge Blocks Trump
An introduction is in order. After graduating from the University of Texas Law School, Fernando Rodriguez Jr. clerked for Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan L. Hecht , who has been described as 'the godfather of the conservative judicial movement in Texas.' Mr. Rodriguez then practiced law for more than a decade with Baker Botts, a conservative-leaning Texas firm whose partners and employees have included Justice Amy Coney Barrett , Sen. Ted Cruz , and the staunchly antiabortion Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas.
Mr. Rodriguez then joined the International Justice Mission, a faith-based nonprofit whose employees are required to be practicing Christians. He was a field office director, first in Bolivia and then in the Dominican Republic, helping these countries' local and national governments investigate and prosecute perpetrators of child sexual assault and human trafficking.
