Weiser Sues to Keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado, Claims Political Retaliation

By: Óscar Contreras | Denver7

DENVER — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said Wednesday he has filed suit against the Trump administration to prevent it from relocating U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama.

At a virtual news conference earlier in the day, Weiser said President Trump’s decision last month to move command headquarters from Colorado was unconstitutional and unlawful as it violates federal law requiring public notices and reports to Congress before moving a major military headquarters location.

Weiser the lawsuit was also challenging the administration’s attempt to meddle with Colorado’s mail-in voting system, which the president described as a “very corrupt voting system” and citing it as “a big factor” in his decision to relocate U.S. Space Command.

“The Constitution does not permit the Executive Branch to punish or retaliate against states for lawfully exercising powers reserved for them, such as the power to regulate elections,” Weiser said. “If we don’t take a stand now against this unconstitutional and unlawful decision, Colorado and other states that use mail-in voting will face further pressure or punishment unless they give up their constitutional authority.”

Weiser said the U.S. Supreme Court has “repeatedly affirmed” that states alone have the power to regulate their own elections under the Tenth Amendment, a power that that neither the president nor the executive branch has under the U.S. Constitution.

Since mail-in voting was enacted in 2013, “there is not a shred of evidence that the outcome of any election within Colorado has been altered by fraud,” Weiser said. “In fact, this system has been embraced, implemented, and supported by both Democrats and Republicans in Colorado.”

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