General Discussion

He isn't a civil servant. He has neither budgetary nor hiring authority from Congress. He receives no salary. He was not vetted or approved by the Senate. As near as I can tell, he has no real standing as a government agent.

Basically, I think the reason you haven't heard about lawsuits yet is because they have not advanced far enough into the pipeline to be visible. The biggest question right now is just a question of standing. Right now, the lawsuits that you're hearing about were the earliest ones, and they didn't have a sufficient period of time to show that the plaintiffs were materially harmed by Musk's actions. That's beginning to shift, and I notice that Musk has been conspicuously more quiet in the last few weeks.