California’s Political Commissars Surrender To Elon Musk’s Lawyers |
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California’s Political Commissars Surrender To Elon Musk’s Lawyers
‘The Commission agrees that it may not consider irrelevant factors in performing its function and specifically agrees that it will not take into account the perceived political beliefs, political speech, or labor practices of SpaceX or its officers.’
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Is anything outside of politics, anymore, or does every human activity fall into the sinkhole of partisan speech policing? After a year and a half of legal combat, we just got an important answer in California. Good news: The commissariat is sorry.
Sending a growing number of satellites into orbit by way of a growing number of rocket launches, the Elon Musk-run Space X asked in 2024 to increase its launch frequency at Vandenberg Space Force Base, a launchpad-heavy military post on a magnificent piece of coastline in northwestern Santa Barbara County. Space X and the Space Force required approval from a series of government agencies, including the California Coastal Commission (CCC).
The CCC was established by a ballot measure in 1972, and it enforces the state’s Coastal Act of 1976. In theory, that means that the commission protects the coastal environment from pollution and overdevelopment, ensures public access to the ocean and beaches, and a series of other preservationist mandates. But there have been many controversies over the limits of the commission’s power, and especially over the balance between state and local control of........