Elon Musk’s lawsuit-plagued SpaceX rocket company is departing Delaware for a new legal home base in Texas just as the Lone Star State rolls out a new, separate court system for businesses that will allow Republican Texas Governor — and longtime Musk ally — Greg Abbott to handpick judges.
Texas’s oil and gas industries, alongside a host of other corporate interests, lobbied hard last year for the state’s new business court system, which will begin hearing cases this September. The fierce support from Big Oil, Texas’s largest industry, was evidence, critics charged, that business interests in Texas were effectively trying to buy their own courts.
Despite pushback, businesses succeeded. After lawmakers brought the bill to his desk, Abbott signed the proposal into law in June. Texas has now created what critics argue is a two-tiered system of justice, where cases involving massive corporations are funneled into separate courts and heard by judges appointed personally by the governor.
David Sirota: How can you let your let this biased trash hit piece be published by the Lever? I know you were hiring new writers but do you not review and approve the articles you publish? I have followed you for years and love what you do but I never expected you to jump on the democrats anti-free speech smear campaign against Elon Musk. Do better, please!
Ms Maguire,
What part of this article do you think is a "hit piece?" Or, to put is slightly differently, what part of it do you think is inaccurate, or even unfair?
This is how politics, and capitalism, work.
If you love what "The Lever" does, this is what it does. It presents example after example of the same problem. And this is the problem.
And you think it's Democrats who are anti free speech? You might be a follower of David Sirota, but you're apparently not a follower of American politics.
Fred