Musk Launches Lawsuit at California Coastal Commission

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Powerline by Lloyd Billingsley 10/17/2024

Elon Musk is suing California’s Coastal Commission (CCC), which recently voted to block more SpaceX launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. As commissioner Gretchen Newsom (no relation to Gavin)  put it, “Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet,” and so forth.

“You could argue that it’s bringing in politics,” proclaimed commissioner Caryl Hart, “but this is a political matter to some extent because it involves the US government, it involves the Coastal Commission. We are dealing with a company, the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race.” Another commissioner managed to clarify what Elon Musk is dealing with.

“I’m beyond pissed,” proclaimed commissioner Susan Lowenberg. “I don’t understand why our own government is thumbing their nose at another branch of our government.” Perhaps this is because this “branch of government” was not elected by the people.

The CCC is an unelected body that overrides scores of elected city and county governments on land-use issues. As Steve once noted, the Commission combines Stalinist regulation with mafia style corruption. Back in the 1990s, commissioner Mark Nathanson, an appointee of Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, Kamala Harris’ former boyfriend, was shaking down Hollywood celebrities for bribes, and wound up serving prison time.

More: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/10/musk-launches-lawsuit-at-california-coastal-commission.php

[PeteS in CA]

The CCC was created in the 70s as a vehicle for Enviros to violate private property rights. It needs to be emasculated, gutted, and incinerated.

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SpaceX sues California regulators, alleging anti-Musk bias in rocket rejection

American Military News by Salvador Hernandez - Los Angeles Times October 19, 2024

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is suing the California Coastal Commission, just days after the agency tasked with protecting the state’s coast and beaches rejected a plan for the company to launch up 50 rockets into space this year.

In the federal suit, filed Tuesday in the Central District of California, the company accuses the state agency of “egregiously and unlawfully overreaching its authority,” and of engaging in “naked political discrimination” against its billionaire owner.

Tensions between the California Coastal Commission and SpaceX have been brewing for months since the company sought to rapidly increase the number of launches it does per year. The state agency has aired concerns about what the impacts will be on the state’s wildlife if rocket blasts significantly increase from Vandenberg Space Force Base, and have asked military officials to mitigate impacts and increase wildlife monitoring.

Those tensions came to a head Thursday, when the state panel denied a plan to increase the number SpaceX rocket launches, and some members of the commission cited Musk’s political posts on X and raised concerns about his companies’ labor record.

“Rarely has a government agency made so clear that it was exceeding its authorized mandate to punish a company for the political views and statements of its largest shareholder and CEO,” the company’s suit argued.

In the suit, SpaceX is asking for an order that would declare SpaceX Facon 9 launch program “federal agency activity,” meaning that the state agency could not regulate it through its permit process, and declare that the commission’s decision to reject the launch plan violated the 1st and 14th amendments of the Constitution.

A spokesperson for the coastal commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/10/spacex-sues-california-regulators-alleging-anti-musk-bias-in-rocket-rejection/

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