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SpaceX Lawsuit Claims Rocket Launches Were Blocked Over Elon Musk’s Politics

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SpaceX is suing regulators in California, alleging that officials rejected a request to carry out more rocket launches due to bias against the political views of CEO Elon Musk.

The suit against the California Coastal Commission, filed Tuesday, comes after the state agency declined a request last Thursday from the U.S. Space Force to allow SpaceX to launch up to 50 rockets annually from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

“The Commissioners expressly stated that this decision was not based on concerns about impacts to coastal resources, but instead on the political views held by SpaceX’s largest shareholder and CEO, Elon Musk,” the lawsuit claims, adding that the “public hearing record indisputably shows overt, and shocking, political bias.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.



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