Lawsuit against Elon Musk’s $1M daily voter sweepstakes put on hold

Philadelphia District Attorney’s lawsuit seeking to stop Elon Musk Distributing $1 million every day A judge halted voter enrollment in the Keystone State Thursday morning.

At a hearing held at City Hall, Judge Angelo Foglietta ruled to halt the lawsuit of Philly DA Larry Krasner, who opposes Musk’s sweepstakes, while lawyers for the tech giant seek to move the case from state court to federal court.

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Since October 19, Musk has been giving away prize money every day to lucky voters in battleground states who sign his petition supporting the Constitution – and specifically the rights of free speech and bearing arms – to help East As part of its efforts. President Donald Trump is back in the White House.

Musk — who has pledged $70 million to a political action committee to support Trump and the Republican cause — has said the sweepstakes will continue until Tuesday’s election.

Krasner sued the SpaceX founder and America PAC on Monday, claiming the high-dollar inducement violates election, consumer and lottery laws. Krasner also said that possible criminal liability against Musk is still under consideration.

Experts raised concerns that the gift violates rules prohibiting people from paying others to vote or register to vote. But Musk has countered that this is simply the price and earnings the winners receive for acting as spokespersons for his super PAC.

The DA’s office said at Thursday’s hearing that Musk should face legal penalties for not appearing at Thursday morning’s hearing.

But Musk’s attorney Matthew Haverstick said Musk should not be a defendant in the case in the first place, and only the political action committee should be, since the payments are funded by that.

Haverstick also said his client could not reach Pennsylvania with only 12 hours’ notice of being placed on the hearing calendar.

Lawyers for the DA’s office balked at this excuse, saying that as the world’s richest man, Musk could have used a SpaceX spacecraft to get to the hearing in time.

Krasner’s attorneys also raised issues of the overall legality of the giveaway because it did not provide any rules or regulations for how the sweepstakes would be played.

The judge put off any ruling in the case until the issue of which court would oversee the case was resolved.

Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are racing to win Pennsylvania and have made multiple visits to the state, which has 19 electoral votes.

with post wires