Multiple efforts to stop Musk
The complaints are not the only effort to rein in Musk’s political spending.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, filed a lawsuit on March 28, 2025, a day after Musk’s first social media post, seeking to stop Musk from distributing the checks.
Musk’s attorneys at the time had argued that an injunction would “restrain Musk’s political speech and curtail his First Amendment rights.”
The million-dollar giveaways were intended to “generate a grassroots movement in opposition to activist judges, not to expressly advocate for or against any candidate,” Musk’s attorneys argued in legal filings.
State courts ultimately declined to block the giveaways and the Wisconsin Supreme Court denied Kaul’s emergency petition without explaining its reasoning.
Last June, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a government watchdog, and two voters filed a lawsuit alleging that Musk, America PAC, and another of Musk’s political organizations violated laws on election bribery and unauthorized lotteries. It also argues that their conduct constituted an unlawful civil conspiracy and public nuisance.
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