Federal judge questions which parts of Obamacare should stand, but rejects call to suspend the law

FORT WORTH, Texas - A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday rejected a request from a group of Republican-led states to suspend the Affordable Care Act, but he extensively quizzed attorneys involved in the latest challenge to the 2010 health care law about which provisions should survive.

That raised the prospect that U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, a conservative appointed by President George W. Bush, may seek to roll back at least some of the consumer protections at the core of the law, often called Obamacare.

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