SpaceX owner Elon Musk’s struggles with a California panel that blocked his company from increasing how many rockets it launches from a U.S. air base in the state is a clear example of “how perilous free speech is,” retired Judge Andrew Napolitano said on Newsmax Friday.
“If the government can suppress the free speech of the richest man on the planet” and potentially that of Donald Trump, “the former and probably future president of the United States, they can suppress anybody’s speech,” Napolitano told Newsmax’s “National Report.” “And that is contrary to the First Amendment. That is un-American.”
Musk’s SpaceX this week sued the California Coastal Commission in federal court, seeking an order barring the agency from regulating the company’s Falcon 9 rocket launch program at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
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