8/8 Musk's focus on a state court race highlights a critical reality: regardless of federal politics, states remain crucial centres of legal & policy decision-making—and are now targets for billionaire influence operations.
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7/8 Law professor Kate Shaw argues this intervention threatens core values: "The amount of power he is wielding seems flatly inconsistent with core precepts of political equality, government accountability and, above all, popular sovereignty."
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6/8 Musk's motives remain murky. Just a week before his endorsement of Schimel, Tesla sued Wisconsin over state dealership rules—a case that could eventually reach the very court Musk seeks to reshape through his political spending.
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3/8 Musk's intervention is massive: His AmericaPAC has spent $6.3 million and Musk-affiliated Building America's Future another $4.3 million. A third Musk-linked PAC is running deceptive ads purporting to support Crawford while actually helping Schimel.
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1/8 🇺🇸MUSK'S STATE COURT GAMBIT🇺🇸
Musk turned his political influence machine toward Wisconsin's crucial Supreme Court race, spending over $10 million to help flip control from liberal to conservative hands—with major implications for voting rights.
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