SEC Urges Supreme Court to Reject Musk’s ‘Twitter Sitter’ Appeal
- Biden administration says Musk case doesn’t warrant review
- Musk seeks end to pre-approval of his Tesla social media posts
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Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/BloombergThe Securities and Exchange Commission told the US Supreme Court it should to turn away an Elon Musk appeal and leave intact his agreement to have an in-house lawyer pre-approve his social media posts about Tesla Inc.
Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and owner of the social media company X Corp., asked the Supreme Court to intervene in December, saying the accord he signed in 2018 now violates his constitutional free speech rights. A federal appeals court rejected his contentions last year just days after the panel heard arguments in the so-called “Twitter sitter” case.