Elon Musk asks judge to throw out court agreement for Twitter posts approval

Elon Musk (Brian Lawless/PA)

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is asking a federal judge to nullify a subpoena from securities regulators and throw out a 2018 court agreement in which he had to have someone pre-approve his posts on Twitter.

In a motion filed on Tuesday in US District Court in Manhattan, Musk lawyer Alex Spiro contends that the subpoena from the US Securities and Exchange Commission has no basis in law.