For those who have a hard time translating from Cabalese: Elon was not afraid of the ruling by the judge. The options the board had were 1) Let Elon buy Twitter before midterms for original price 2) Go ahead with the law suit, delay the purchase for a long time, but risk exposing their bot farms and getting lower price, and in the process open themselves to a lawsuit by the shareholders who missed out on the higher price.

I believe behind the scenes, Elon must have made it very clear that with all the whistleblowers he had, he would demolish them in the courts.

This is better than any Billions episode!