Musk's legal position isn't good. He's trying to throw everything at the wall, hoping something sticks.
This judge has a reputation for impartiality, firmness, and adherence to the law.
I fully expect Musk to do his damndest to somehow disqualify her. My hope is that he doesn't succeed.
Wonder how much Twitter stock Musk is buying now, while the price is low.
That'd be a fun one: he gets ordered to buy the stock at some price between current and original agreement, and already owns more than half of it. Would he then have to go back and pay extra for the stock bought in the interim?
The chance of Musk owning Twitter was the end of the world to a lot of people just a few months ago; I don't hear many of them voicing their relief that the deal might not go through now.
In order to be enforced, laws must be interpreted by someone or some well-defined process.
There is enough ambiguity in human language (even legalese) that mapping it to a given situation requires a human being to interpret, evaluate, and apply.
Hopefully in good faith, hence the high bar to become a judge.
The process definitely is far from perfect, though it shouldn't be controversial to say what we have in the USA today is less bad than what we fled from hundreds of years ago in England.
The good news in this case is that it's extremely high profile, and the extra attention means special care is taken to assign a highly qualified good quality judge.
Note: The circus that is currently SCOTUS is an exception, because politics have hijacked the system.
