• Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Why is he being “sued” and not “arrested and held without bail”? Is election tampering not a felony?

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      5 days ago

      Presumably because he is not yet in Wisconsin. If he shows up though, there really isn’t an excuse.

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      Because he has money. At that level, they apologize to you for the inconvenience and ask one of your representatives to come in and negotiate a possible surrender if you can fit it into your schedule.

      You know the saying that if you owe the bank $1000 you have a problem, but if you owe the bank $100 million, they have a problem? Or how when you’ve got that much money, you’re not “crazy”, you’re just “eccentric”?

      Same basic thing here. Musk didn’t commit a crime; it’s a “civil matter”. He’s not going to be arrested. He’ll just be “sued”. If the AG wants to try to butt heads with Trump and try to arrest Musk, the AG is going to be the one with the problem.

      What, you didn’t think the law applied to them, did you?