SpaceX Gets Limited Boost in NLRB Fight From High Court Ruling

The US Supreme Court handed SpaceX a temporary, partial win in the company’s challenge to the National Labor Relations Board’s constitutionality by avoiding a key issue in its ruling on administrative enforcement.

The high court’s Thursday decision didn’t reach the question of whether the Securities and Exchange Commission’s administrative law judges are unconstitutional due to their double-layered protections against removal. That effectively leaves in place the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s 2022 holding that the SEC’s in-house judges violate the Constitution.

Elon Musk-owned SpaceX benefits from that circuit precedent remaining good law because both of its multi-pronged ...