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 of brands. The judge reported receiving a dividend from the company in 2022 of $15,000 or less.
In O’Connor’s two-sentence order stepping aside from the Musk case, he did not offer an explanation.
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Wikipedia about this sourceWe seriously need to come together as a society and do something about this asshat. He’s tying up the courts with bullshit suits and causing real harm to regular people on a frequent basis.
Jesus, it took a news outlet exposing his conflicts of interest to make the judge recuse himself? The judiciary is in real need of ethics reform. If you’re a judge who is going to be presiding over cases between corporations you shouldn’t be owning any individual stocks to begin with, WTF are these people doing.
I know our courts are corrupt, but I have to believe there is a virtually zero percent chance Musk wins this. Aside from being idiotic, a win would completely break advertising and business in general.
Musk was always a piece of garbage, but I really believe having a billion+ in wealth breaks your brain. He’s just astounded that anyone could cross him and get away with it.
He stepped aside because he is invested in both parties. I guarantee you if he was only invested in one side, he would claim that he would be impartial.
