Texas Supreme Court denies request to save beach from SpaceX

[BumRushDaShow]

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

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462904/24-0237-0407-0457.pdf

[riversedge]

1. so--my translation is that ONLY the Tx government can destroy the beach, its animals, its water,

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]

2. In other words...

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

There is, of course, but...

[displacedvermoter]

3. Live in a circus, expect elephant shit...

[calimary]

9. Ooooooh, that's a GOOD one!

[wolfie001]

4. Every decision from tex-ASS leaders is violently political

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

[nuxvomica]

5. It's that stubborn enforcement problem again

The law is on the books but somehow can't be enforced, just like Alito's decision on the 14th Amendment. This is a dangerous tactic.

[dlk]

6. Without an effective enforcement mechanism, laws aren't worth the paper they're written on

It gives partisan courts all the room in the world to maneuver as they see fit and essentially legislate from the bench, as in this case, essentially ignoring the Texas Constitution. This isn’t democracy.

[SergeStorms]

7. Boy, I bet Elon was really sweating it there.

Those politicians and judges were bought and paid for years ago.

[peppertree]

8. About the only sweatin' that sumabitch does in Texas, is when he walks from his limo to his office

Hard not to in June, to be fair.