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BumRushDaShow

(173,314 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:48 AM 3 hrs ago

Texas Supreme Court denies request to save beach from SpaceX

Source: The Independent

Saturday 20 June 2026 21:06 EDT


Elon Musk’s SpaceX can keep closing a Texas beach to launch rockets from the company’s nearby Starbase, according to the state’s Supreme Court.

The state’s highest court rejected claims brought by environmental groups that barring public access to Boca Chica Beach violated the state’s constitution.

Friday’s unanimous, 24-page opinion overruled an appeals court that had sided with environmental groups and reinstated a trial judge’s decision to throw out their lawsuit.

Writing for the court, Justice Rebecca Huddle cited the Lone Star State’s 1959 Open Beaches Act, which voters enshrined in in the state’s constitution in 2009. The measure protected the public’s right to beach access, “but it did not expand or confer on private citizens a right of enforcement or otherwise alter the preexisting enforcement scheme, which resided with governmental actors alone,” she wrote.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/spacex-texas-beach-supreme-court-ruling-b2999782.html



Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462904/24-0237-0407-0457.pdf
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Texas Supreme Court denies request to save beach from SpaceX (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 3 hrs ago OP
so--my translation is that ONLY the Tx government can destroy the beach, its animals, its water, riversedge 3 hrs ago #1
In other words... OldBaldy1701E 1 hr ago #2
Live in a circus, expect elephant shit... displacedvermoter 1 hr ago #3
Every decision from tex-ASS leaders is violently political wolfie001 8 min ago #4

riversedge

(82,099 posts)
1. so--my translation is that ONLY the Tx government can destroy the beach, its animals, its water,
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:56 AM
3 hrs ago

it environment. !!! This must be so horrible for the people in the area--and for Texas!!



..........Writing for the court, Justice Rebecca Huddle cited the Lone Star State’s 1959 Open Beaches Act, which voters enshrined in in the state’s constitution in 2009. The measure protected the public’s right to beach access, “but it did not expand or confer on private citizens a right of enforcement or otherwise alter the preexisting enforcement scheme, which resided with governmental actors alone,” she wrote.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,776 posts)
2. In other words...
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:49 AM
1 hr ago

"Fuck you we do what we want and there is nothing you can do about it."

There is, of course, but...

wolfie001

(8,155 posts)
4. Every decision from tex-ASS leaders is violently political
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 08:51 AM
8 min ago

Every investigation, every "study", every prevarication is meant to hurt citizens. These are fucking christo-fascist monsters. Racist, homophobic, science-denying pieces of shit.

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