Elon Musk hands out million-dollar checks amid 'super important' Wisconsin judicial race

Billionaire Elon Musk handed out a pair of $1 million checks to voters in Wisconsin on Sunday in an effort to galvanize conservatives ahead of the state's Supreme Court elections on Tuesday.

Musk handed out the checks at a town hall in Greenbay, Wisconsin, after the state Supreme Court declined to intervene in the giveaway. The recipients of the checks were each voters who had signed a petition calling for an end to "activist judges."

"Judges should be simply interpreting the law and not making the law," Musk said at the rally. "We just want judges to be judges, you know, which is the reasonable thing to ask for. We're obviously seeing some crazy stuff in D.C. where, you know, it seems like any federal judge can stop any action by the President of the United States. This is insane. This has got to stop."

Wisconsin Democrats had sought to prevent Musk from handing out his checks, arguing he was illegally buying votes. State Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, wa...