Tesla’s Musk Seeks to End SEC Muzzle on Tweets, Could Face Uphill Battle

Tesla head Elon Musk talks to the press as he arrives to to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin near Gruenheide, Germany, on Sept. 3, 2020. Maja Hitij/Getty Images

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday asked a federal judge to terminate his 2018 agreement with the top U.S. securities regulator requiring some of his tweets to be vetted by a lawyer.

Musk also asked the judge to block a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) subpoena requesting records of pre-approval of a Twitter poll he conducted in November on potentially selling some of his stock.