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”.