A Delaware judge who’s overseeing several cases involving Elon Musk’s companies has said she’ll reassign them to other judges. Musk has claimed the judge was biased against him because she liked a LinkedIn post about him losing a court case in California, something the judge denies doing intentionally.
Attorneys for Musk filed to have Delaware Chancery Court Chief Judge Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick recuse herself last week, according to Bloomberg.
“The motion for recusal rests on a false premise—that I support a LinkedIn post about Mr. Musk, which I do not in fact support. I am not biased against the defendants in these actions. In fact, I dismissed a suit against Mr. Musk just last year,” Judge McCormick wrote.
The judge denied a motion to recuse herself but ultimately reassigned the cases. She cited the controversy and media attention that the LinkedIn post was getting and wrote that it was enough to make her reassign the cases, even if she didn’t think she was biased.
“As should be obvious, disproportionate media attention surrounding a judge’s handling of an action is detrimental to the administration of justice. Fortunately, the Court of Chancery is far greater than any one person,” the judge wrote.
Attorneys for Musk included a screenshot of the LinkedIn post in their filing last week. The post celebrated a victory in court in a case about Twitter where “the little guy” won “against the richest man in the world.”
McCormick wrote last week that she might have hit the “support” button accidentally but doesn’t actually think she did. After reporting suspicious activity on her account, she said she was locked out.
But Musk’s attorneys wrote that her account appears to have been deactivated on March 23, 2026 and didn’t just like the post, she hit “support,” which is, “symbolized by a heart hovering in an outstretched hand—requires deliberate selection, an effort beyond clicking the generic ‘like’ button.” LinkedIn didn’t immediately respond to an email Monday with questions about the potential for interference with McCormick’s account.
The three cases that are being reassigned include one that alleges Musk improperly used resources from Tesla to help his artificial intelligence company xAI, another that alleges he did the same to help X back when it was known as Twitter, and another case that Musk traded Tesla stock based on insider information, according to Bloomberg.
Musk has a long history of disliking Judge McCormick, who ruled in 2024 that he had too much influence over his own $139 billion pay package. The Delaware Supreme Court later overruled McCormick and he was allowed to accept the lavish pay. Musk has lashed out repeatedly against McCormick, calling her the “activist chief judge of the Delaware court” who has “no respect for shareholder rights.” Another tweet said she was engaged in “absolute corruption.”
Musk has taken aim at countless judges over the years but really seems to have accelerated his attacks on the judiciary since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, when he joined the administration with DOGE. Musk and Trump had a falling out but the billionaire Tesla CEO maintains deep ties with the U.S. government and frequently calls for judges to be punished over decisions he dislikes.
Musk was reportedly on a call recently with Trump and the prime minister of India over the Iran War, according to the New York Times. It’s highly unusual for private citizens to be engaged in such high level talks during a war, but Musk has a desire to expand his business interests in the country.
Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth currently at $808 billion, according to Forbes. His company SpaceX is expected to go public this year, which will likely make him the first trillionaire in existence.
