Before judge Ronnie Abrams, an Obama judge.
"...the case was reassigned to Lewis A. Kaplan, a senior judge at the court, legal filings show."
Kaplan was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_A._Kaplan
Abrams' husband works at Davis Polk, but Davis Polk (firm w/ ~1000 attorneys) has represented FTX in the past. It's pretty typical for these sorts of conflicts to arise, and in this case it's probably best to remove any sniff of a perceived conflict by Abrams stepping aside. Nothing here is going to be controversial -- though our federal courts are currently going through serious turmoil due to events of last few years, albeit not really SDNY and the 2nd Circuit is mostly normal too.