SpaceX’s Constitutional Challenge to NLRB Gets Judicial Support

The safeguards preventing the president from firing National Labor Relations Board members and the agency’s in-house judges are probably unconstitutional, a federal judge said in an order explaining his earlier directive blocking an administrative case against SpaceX.

SpaceX, the Elon Musk-owned aerospace firm, is likely to win its lawsuit challenging the removal protections for NLRB members and administrative law judges, US District Judge Alan Albright held Tuesday.

Albright, a Trump appointee to the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, granted the company’s request for a preliminary injunction July 11. That halted prosecution of unfair labor practice ...