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Above the Law

Above the Law

Judge Reed O’Connor recused himself from a case involving Elon Musk because he owned Tesla stock

Above the Law
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Judge Reed O’Connor has spent his tenure striking down Obamacare and getting overturned by the Supreme Court .

O'Connor recused himself from the case after it emerged that he owned a sizable amount of Tesla stock.

Media Matters , the liberal media watchdog that Musk sued, also raised Tesla as an interested party to their case in a roundabout bid to get a new judge.

Musk claims Media Matters wronged him when it pointed out that X served them name-brand advertisements next to white nationalist posts.

Musk ’s argument is that this is tortious interference because Media Matters had to manufacture a unique profile to trigger these circumstances.

Media Matters proved, through whatever means, that these safeguards were not thorough and even if advertisers acted on that specific revelation, it cannot not be characterized as an “intent to deceive” since the claim turned out to be True.

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