Musk’s Attacks on Delaware Judiciary Prompt Defense From Bar (1)

Elon Musk’s attacks on the Delaware judge who’s twice denied him a $56 billion pay package for being Tesla Inc.'s CEO have pushed the state bar association to publicly defend the judiciary from “constant antagonism.”

“Joining a disturbing trend emerging across the US, Delaware’s judges have been unjustly attacked with increasingly polarized rhetoric that goes far beyond any scholarly critique of their rulings and written opinions,” the bar said in a statement posted online late Tuesday.

Musk blasted Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick’s Dec. 2 ruling, reinforcing her previous decision to void the package because Tesla’s board was too ...