Don't Mess with Texas: Texas enters the Twitter deal

“It’s not clear that Musk’s demands are anything more than a fishing expedition, nor that the information is actually vital to closing the deal. The same goes for Paxton’s requests: ‘Consumer laws exist to protect consumers from real harm,’ James Tierney, a lecturer at Harvard Law School and a former Maine state attorney general, told DealBook. ‘They do not exist to allow a government official to meddle in ongoing corporate transactions on behalf of a constituent.’”

Andrew Ross Sorkin, Vivian Giang, Stephen Gandel, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni and Jenny Gross, “Don't Mess with Texas: Texas enters the Twitter deal,” New York Times, June 7, 2022.