Lawfare launched against Musk

 Streiff:

A group of eleven former Republican prosecutors and elected officials have asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to open an investigation into Elon Musk for paying registered voters in seven states to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. See Elon Musk Giving Away Millions to Promote Petition Supporting First and Second Amendments.

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So far, the Department of Justice hasn't commented, but it is hard to believe that someone in Garland's Sicherheitsdienst won't seize the opportunity to launch a pre-dawn raid on one of Musk's homes just for the photo-op.

The whole issue is rather nuts, so it is no great shock that UCLA Law Professor Rick Hasen is up to his unibrow in this lawfare. 

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Hasen dishonestly tries to bootstrap gifting registered voters of either party, whether or not they have ever voted, for signing a petition into "vote buying" or paying people to register to vote. I suppose if you tie any law to the rack and torture it hard enough that you could claim that Musk is paying people to register to vote, but given the experience of the Department of Justice in wildly overinterpreting laws (see The Supreme Court Firebombs the Administrative State and Tells Congress to Get Off Its Butt and Work and Merrick Garland's Petulant Response to SCOTUS's Fischer Decision Is a Metaphor for Garland Himself), Garland's stooges may be reluctant to go down that path again until they know the outcome of this election.

As Musk has elevated his profile in politics (see 'To Hell With Them': Elon Knocks Those Who Are 'Fundamentally Anti-American' As He Stumps for Trump in PA), he has become a target of the US government. Sunday, the New York Times wrote a gleeful story on all the federal agencies investigating either Musk or his business ventures, complete with a helpful infographic.

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I think Elon Musk is a patriot who is rewarding people for signing a petition.  I have always voted without expecting a reward.  I don't think signing a petition is vote-buying.  I have always supported the First and Second Amendments.  There is no need to make a check out to the Prairie Pundit.

See also:

WATCH: Tim 'Jazz Hands' Walz Attempts to Mock Elon Musk, but Elon Gets the Last Laugh

And:

 In a struggling town, Musk discusses ‘purpose’

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