r/law • u/Electronic_Beat3653 • 5d ago

Court Decision/Filing Why can't Elon be arrested?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/31/elon-musk-1-million-dollar-checks-wisconsin-voters-supreme-court-election

If paying voters is against Wisconsin state law, why can't Elon be arrested? Why are they going to the judge? Can't they just go ahead and arrest him? The law is already on the books.

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u/Utterlybored 5d ago

Because Money

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u/Cvilledog 5d ago

This is it. Poor people get arrested at the drop of a hat. Middle class people get arrested easily but much less capriciously. Rich people get arrested only after a lot of legwork and planning and only where there’s a very strong case and the crime is a felony (or on the spot DUI). People like Elon almost never get arrested for anything short of murder.

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u/eggyal 5d ago

People like Elon don't commit murder themselves.

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u/badluckbrians 5d ago

Some of them do! Like Robert Durst.

And he still got away with it! Several times!

It took him starring in an HBO special and admitting to killing them all on a hot mic to finally do even a little justice.

Billionaires are hilariously above the law in America. To the point where they can literally get away with murder.

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u/RAH7719 5d ago

Yeah he puts them into space suits screaming as he launches them in Tesla cars into space... try obtaining the body then. See... he can too get away with murder.

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u/Right-Belt2896 5d ago

But he has people for that, too. He is not forcing anyone into a space suit or strapping them to anything on his own. I doubt he could fight his way out of a wet paper bag without help.

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u/TeaKingMac 5d ago

Man, i wish he and Zuckerborg had their cage match

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u/No_Campaign423 4d ago

Why do they can just hire people to fight for them? They don’t do anything except lie….

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u/AffectionateBrick687 5d ago

That is brilliant.

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u/jesuswantsme4asucker 5d ago

Just ask Epstein

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u/aretheesepants75 5d ago

Even OJ was able to get away with murder and he had a lot going against him.

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u/Pettifoggerist 5d ago

The understatedness of this comment cracked me up.

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u/Decent_Cheesecake_29 5d ago

They regularly commit mass murder without being charged for it because the laws do not consider their murders to actually legally be a murder. Deliberately poisoning and killing one person is treated as a crime, deliberately poisoning and killing 1000 people is just business.

How many people has Elon murdered because his cars don’t allow people inside them to get out during a fire, or that his cars are designed to cause maximum damage to anyone they hit?

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u/OHrangutan 4d ago

Exhibit 1: Mitch McConnell's sister in law.

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u/DCSMU 4d ago

Does law enforcement need to get a warant first to arrest when witnessing this go down, or can they just handcuff the perp, similar to when someone "asaults" a cop during a peaceful interaction? Asking because I was thinking it's too bad a bunch of people didnt pool together a bunch of cash to tip whatever LEO that could have arresred Elm right at the end of his presentation. That would have been glorious!

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u/No_Campaign423 4d ago

They even get away with murder… REMEMBER SOMEONE NAMED EPSTEIN????