Federal judge throws out Justice’s discrimination lawsuit against SpaceX
A federal judge in Texas yesterday dismissed the Biden Justice Department lawsuit against SpaceX that accused the company of discrimination for not hiring illegal immigrants.
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday halted the Justice Department’s case, after the company called it “factually and legally insupportable.” Musk has argued that SpaceX was barred from hiring foreign nationals because of restrictions placed on sharing of information related to rocket technology.
The Justice Department had been investigating SpaceX’s hiring practices since 2020 after receiving a complaint from a person who claimed he was turned down for a job after revealing during an interview that he wasn’t a US citizen or a lawful permanent resident.
At the present Biden’s Justice department has not responded to this decision. The lawsuit might have been idiotic on its face, but its deeper intention was simply to harass SpaceX and Elon Musk — now considered an enemy to Democratic Party rule — and in that it has so far succeeded. Appealing this decision will continue that harassment, even if it is patently obvious that the suit has no merits at all.
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A federal judge in Texas yesterday dismissed the Biden Justice Department lawsuit against SpaceX that accused the company of discrimination for not hiring illegal immigrants.
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday halted the Justice Department’s case, after the company called it “factually and legally insupportable.” Musk has argued that SpaceX was barred from hiring foreign nationals because of restrictions placed on sharing of information related to rocket technology.
The Justice Department had been investigating SpaceX’s hiring practices since 2020 after receiving a complaint from a person who claimed he was turned down for a job after revealing during an interview that he wasn’t a US citizen or a lawful permanent resident.
At the present Biden’s Justice department has not responded to this decision. The lawsuit might have been idiotic on its face, but its deeper intention was simply to harass SpaceX and Elon Musk — now considered an enemy to Democratic Party rule — and in that it has so far succeeded. Appealing this decision will continue that harassment, even if it is patently obvious that the suit has no merits at all.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I wonder if some of the Democrat harassments of SpaceX we’re seeing aren’t going to end up being background context items in a future history book?
Say, “The Earth-Mars Civil War, 2257 – 2267”?
I knew that this would be defeated. This was just another shakedown to SpaceX by the Biden administration.
The Expanse
Planetary Railgun Strike on Martian Stealth Ballistic Missile Platforms”
https://youtu.be/sjFfw7dcYqY
6:38
Ideally I’d like to see this DOJ marked as a vexatious litigant.
Hardly surprising, but when the suit was announced, it was covered everywhere. I’ve tried a couple different searches and can’t find anything about the dismissal besides the article you linked, and google doesn’t even bring that article up. I’ve been trying to find the actual order from the court to see what reasoning the judge used, and can’t find it anywhere searchable.
David Eastman: Using the Whatfinger search engine (here) I found this story at the Verge.
Nice find, Robert. The whiny and weasel-y headline on the piece makes it obvious that this outcome seriously chapped some behinds at the cesspit of woke progressivism that is The Verge.
This is where ITAR did some good. They regulated themselves into a box. He can’t hire foreign nationals…but if ITAR was repealed…then he could go off shore. Catch-22.
outcome seriously chapped some behinds
Good! Great !! Make Liberals Cry Again
Hello Dick,
The actual story is not as bad as the headline; but I am sure they know that most peeps won’t read past the headline.
At any rate this is what separates Ars Technica from The Verge: Ars is full of Woke, too, but they managed to hire two solid space journalists in Eric Berger and Stephen Clark, and they let them have free run. The result is that they managed to provide some of the best coverage of SpaceX that exists out there. I hope it lasts.