Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who has sued President Donald Trump over tariffs, birthright citizenship, federal worker layoffs and funding freezes, among other things, is now vowing to sue to stop him from moving Space Command out of Colorado to Huntsville, Ala.
Is there a legal case for keeping Space Command here?
Experts in administrative law say Colorado’s path is narrow — courts usually defer to the Pentagon or executive branch on all basing matters. But if Weiser frames his argument as the Department of Defense failing to follow required administrative procedures, he may have a plausible case under the Administrative Procedure Act.
Both the Government Accountability Office and the DoD Inspector General have already flagged serious procedural flaws with the decision-making