Jul. 3 at 12:49 AM
$SOC I am not a lawyer, but I do play one from time to time with ChatGPT!! 🤣
Post 1
May it please the Court.
This case is not about whether California may prefer one energy policy and the federal government another. It is not about whether one private company should receive special treatment. And it is not, as California suggests, a case about corporate favoritism dressed up in national-defense language.
This case is about whether a State may create, deepen, and then legally defend a strategic energy vulnerability on the Pacific Coast of the United States — and then prevent the federal government from using congressionally delegated national-defense authority to mitigate that vulnerability when foreign conflict exposes it.
Congress enacted the Defense Production Act for moments exactly like this: moments when domestic supply chains, industrial capacity, infrastructure, and strategic materials become matters of national defense.
