The Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit against xAI in Mississippi federal court. The government wants the case tossed. Elon Musk's AI company now belongs to SpaceX, which means the organizational chart looks like a drunk person designed it on a napkin.
The NAACP sued over air pollution. xAI presumably did something that made the air worse. The federal government reviewed the situation and decided the best course of action was helping the billionaire make the lawsuit disappear. Your tax dollars paid lawyers to write that motion. Those lawyers went to good schools.
SpaceX acquired xAI at some point between the headline being written and you reading this sentence. The companies merged because apparently one Musk company wasn't enough to generate environmental litigation. Now there's a vertically integrated operation that can pollute the air while building rockets to escape the polluted air. Efficiency experts call this synergy.
The case involves air pollution in Mississippi, which means someone noticed the air quality changed. In Mississippi. A state where you can smell Louisiana from three counties away. The bar for noticeable air degradation sits impressively low, yet xAI apparently pole-vaulted over it.
The DOJ filing argues the court should dismiss the case entirely. Not settle it. Not mediate it. Just make it go away like it never happened. The legal argument probably involves standing and jurisdiction and other words that mean "we'd prefer if you stopped looking at this."
Retail traders who bought Tesla stock because they thought Musk was a genius will now explain to you why the DOJ intervening on behalf of a private company's pollution lawsuit is actually bullish for crypto. They'll cite the environmental benefits of not having to manufacture as many court documents. They'll draw triangles on charts. They'll call it a buying opportunity right up until they're buying air purifiers with their margin call money.
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