Elon Musk ordered to attend $1 million voter lottery suit hearing in Philadelphia

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Elon Musk wears a achromatic "Make America Great Again" headdress portion attending a run rally with Republican statesmanlike nominee and erstwhile President Donald Trump astatine the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds successful Butler, Pennsylvania, connected Oct. 5, 2024.

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Elon Musk indispensable be an exigency tribunal proceeding successful Philadelphia connected Thursday greeting to code a bid by the city's apical authoritative to halt the Telsa CEO and his governmental enactment committee from continuing to grant $1 cardinal prizes to registered voters successful the plaything authorities of Pennsylvania, a justice ordered Wednesday.

Also connected Wednesday, attorneys for Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner revealed successful a tribunal filing that his suit against Musk and the America PAC had "triggered an avalanche of [social media] posts from Musk's followers," galore of whom "made antisemitic attacks connected Krasner."

The attorneys wrote that aft Krasner filed his suit connected Monday, Musk successful a station connected his societal media tract X noted his statement with a user's assertion that the territory lawyer knows the $1 cardinal regular giveaway is "not amerciable but wants a leftist justice to halt it earlier Election Day."

Krasner's lawyers asked that the justice bid enhanced information for the hearing, which was primitively scheduled for Friday morning, noting that 1 X relationship had posted the prosecutor's location code and wrote, "Krasner loves visitors. Mask up and permission each cellphones astatine home."

After that filing, the justice successful the lawsuit moved up the proceeding to Friday morning.

Krasner's suit accuses Musk and America PAC of operating an amerciable lottery and trying to power voters successful the statesmanlike predetermination betwixt Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump.

Musk and America PAC are backing Trump, the Republican nominee.

Musk did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from CNBC.

- Additional reporting by CNBC's Lora Kolodny

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