Texas judge steps aside in Elon Musk’s X case against advertisers

U.S. Federal Judge Reed O’Connor has been a longtime active member of the Federalist Society. In 2018, he spoke on a panel at the annual Texas Chapters Conference.
The Federalist Society/Screenshot NPR

The Federalist Society/Screenshot NPR

A U.S. District Judge in Texas has recused himself from a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X days after NPR drew scrutiny to the judge’s investment in Tesla and questions about Musk using the court to engage in “forum-shopping.”

But O’Connor, according to his most recent publicly available financial disclosure, also invests in Unilever, one of the defendants in Musk’s suit against a coalition

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