Elon Musk discovers that if you're a world-class villain it's hard to find a jury that doesn't already dislike you

Imagine being such a notorious evil-doer that it’s impossible to find jury members that don’t already hate you.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are currently in court battling over who said what in the earlier days of OpenAI. Jury selection apparently didn’t go overly smoothly:

Musk’s lawyers took issue with some of the people who said they already don’t like Musk and tried to get them struck from the pool of possible jurors for cause.

However, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said, “The reality is that people don’t like him… Many people don’t like him, but that doesn’t mean that Americans nevertheless can’t have integrity for the judicial process.”

To be fair, some of the prospective juror questionnaires were quite forthright in expressing their very valid opinions:

Elon Musk is a greedy, racist, homophobic piece of garbage."

“Elon Musk is a world-class jerk.”

“I very much dislike Tesla. As a woman of color, I am very aware of the damaging statements and actions Elon Musk has enacted and been a part of.