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Those attorneys have since retained counsel and challenged the legality of the firings through an appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, which bills itself as an independent, quasi-judicial agency in the executive branch.

The protests before the county election boards are quasi-judicial proceedings, he said, and the statements made in the case were relevant to the matters at hand.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is now seeking an order from the agency’s quasi-judicial hearing board to compel Tesla to correct the issues.

They did rule, however, that Porter was granted the privilege because he operated within a “quasi-judicial election protest proceeding.”

“As the P.S.C. chairman, he stood up for the duty of quasi-judicial officers to make their judgments independent of political influences,” Mr. Sundram said.