Elon Musk was ordered on Wednesday by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing the world’s richest person of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin, Texas said Jacqueline McAferty plausibly alleged in her proposed class action that Musk and his political action committee America PAC wrongly induced her to provide personal identifying information as part of the giveaway, late in the 2024 election campaign.
Musk founded America PAC to support Republican Donald Trump’s successful 2024 presidential run.
A little late
One of the biggest failings of our system is that it takes so fucking long to bring a viable lawsuit up that you can almost never stop the illegal behavior while it’s happening. And many suits get automatically dismissed because “it already happened and is therefore irrelevant now”.
Lawsuit hell. He should have been arrested and charged outright. It was a clear, unambiguous violation of the state’s Election Bribery statute.
It wasn’t because he was supporting a Republican
You may be right, but I’m pretty sure a Democratic billionaire would also have had their crime ignored. I think the main issue is wealth, not party in this case, though party surely helped.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but if something is illegal isn’t it supposed to result in CRIMINAL CHARGES, not just a civil lawsuit?!
Yeah, but they don’t pay as well.
A person is suing Musk, not the state and if I’m not mistaken, the burden of proof is also less in a civil case so it’s more likely they can win. So they could have chosen civil for that purpose.
If they do win, that could maybe encourage a criminal case to go forward?
Sure, but why is that necessary? Why have the state and/or federal prosecutors failed to indict him? His crime was public and notorious; why are they not doing their goddamn jobs?
Some states (not sure if this one was) tried to get an injunction against it and failed in court.
It’s possible that the state doesn’t think they have a strong enough case to win a criminal trial? (Edit assuming this was one of those states)
Remember when he hailed all the world’s Nazis from an inauguration ceremony?
Yep.
I remember when the world’s wealthiest man stood on a stage behind a presidential seal at a presidential inauguration in a country that took him in and made him extraordinarily wealthy and performed not one, but two Nazi salutes on national television.
Then I remember conservatives making excuses for that Nazi the same way they make excuses for a felon rapist pedophile.
It’s almost like they’re traitors to our nation.
Let me guess.
No fine. Or a fine that represents a fraction of a single percent of his total wealth.
Until he is arrested and deported I don’t care about musk. FYI Elons in the Epstein files.
Didn’t Elon want to release the files?
I honestly can’t remember.
These figures are pocket change to him. He literally doesn’t have to care about the outcome.
