Considering the judge that was supposed to be in the Desantis/Disney case was basically forced to recuse himself because a relative owned Disney stock, I can see the reason for this judge to recuse themself as well. I don't personally think the judge is going to come to a decision because their son works at Microsoft, so i don't care either way.

There's quite a large difference between a relative owning stock and a relative working for a company (not even in the gaming department). In addition, DeSantis team asked the Judge to recuse himself to begin with, however, he recused himself for a different reason than what DeSantis team asked him to recuse himself for.

In this scenario, Judge Corley informed both FTC and Microsoft pre-trial that she had a relative who works for Microsoft, the FTC did not have any issue with that, despite wanting to block the deal, the FTC did not ask her to recuse herself, when it was fully within their power to do so. In fact, I'm pretty sure that I read before that both Microsoft and FTC agreed upon Corley for the case, she is respected by both parties.

If the FTC didn't care, then I don't see why anyone else should.

If the FTC agreed to this judge knowing this information then it is what it is, but while I agree that the stuff about "supporting the financial success of the child's employer" is a huge reach (this case will very likely have no influence on her son's position in the company and fairly little on the overall success of MS), it's honestly also a reach to completely dismiss the possibility of some small bit of bias, regardless of whether it will actually end up influencing the outcome (most likely it wouldn't). I'm essentially just saying if I was the FTC I'd have asked for a different judge just to be safe, but that's up to them.

There's quite a large difference between a relative owning stock and a relative working for a company (not even in the gaming department). In addition, DeSantis team asked the Judge to recuse himself to begin with, however, he recused himself for a different reason than what DeSantis team asked him to recuse himself for.

In this scenario, Judge Corley informed both FTC and Microsoft pre-trial that she had a relative who works for Microsoft, the FTC did not have any issue with that, despite wanting to block the deal, the FTC did not ask her to recuse herself, when it was fully within their power to do so. In fact, I'm pretty sure that I read before that both Microsoft and FTC agreed upon Corley for the case, she is respected by both parties.

If the FTC didn't care, then I don't see why anyone else should.

Idk what they were but I do know the FTC/Microsoft had opportunity to object to the judge chosen for the case, they both agreed to her and Judge Corley informed both parties right at the start that she has a son who works at Microsoft, the FTC didn't care and the only reason this watchdog knows about it is because she was honest (before the trial even started) about it.

After Microsoft transferred "donations" to some senators to harm Sony - I've already shown you that this was bullshit multiple times and you continue to ignore it, if you continue to ignore it and continue to create threads based on nonsense then I'll start considering taking away your thread making privileges.

This is NOT a scandal either, the Judge said from day one, minute one that her son works for Microsoft, both the FTC and Microsoft agreed that it wasn't a problem, they both agreed to this judge for this case. Stop with the dang conspiracy theory nonsense in your threads.

It's an insult to her to think she can't make an unbiased decision because her son works at Microsoft, she is a very highly regarded judge and been doing this for a very long time. She is also a judge appointed by Biden, just like Lina Khan was appointed by Biden, so an equally bad conspiracy theory will say she will side with Lina on this, but no, she won't, it means shit, she'll make her own judgement.

Locking in a few minutes.

After Microsoft transferred "donations" to some senators to harm Sony - I've already shown you that this was a lie, multiple times, and you continue to ignore it, if you continue to ignore it and continue to create threads based on lies then I'll start considering taking away your thread making privileges.

This is NOT a scandal either, the Judge said from day one, minute one that her son works for Microsoft, both the FTC and Microsoft agreed that it wasn't a problem, they both agreed to this judge for this case. Stop with the dang conspiracy theory nonsense in your threads.

It's an insult to her to think she can't make an unbiased decision because her son works at Microsoft, she is a very highly regarded judge and been doing this for a very long time. She is also a judge appointed by Biden, just like Lina Khan was appointed by Biden, so an equally bad conspiracy theory will say she will side with Lina on this, but no, she won't, it means shit, she'll make her own judgement.

Locking in a few minutes.

Keeping it open, for now.