• Elon Musk must attend an emergency court hearing in Philadelphia on Thursday to address a bid by the city’s top prosecutor to stop the Tesla CEO and his political action committee from continuing to award $1 million prizes to registered voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
  • Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner revealed his lawsuit against Musk and the America PAC “triggered an avalanche of [social media] posts from Musk’s followers,” many of whom “made antisemitic attacks on Krasner.”
  • Krasner’s lawsuit accuses Musk and the PAC of operating an illegal lottery and trying to influence voters in the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Too late, damage is done, if Trump wins he’s guaranteed a federal pardon.

    This is why they always win, because he wasn’t put in jail after the first 9000 felonies.

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        22 days ago

        This is not a prosecution, this is a lawsuit for an order to desist, basically a temporary restraining order.

        The potential crime would be against federal election laws, which could be either civil or criminal federal prosecutions.

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          21 days ago

          To be fair, he’s also breaking Pennsylvanian lottery laws which he could be prosecuted for on a state level.

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          21 days ago

          Very interesting. More complicated than I realized. Thanks for the correction.

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        21 days ago

        … Until the Supreme Court invents a crazy new precedent that goes against the Constitution.