Legal challenges are taking place to stop base closures from happening.
Courts in four states are ordering the base closure commission to not send their recommendations to the President "as is" as the plaintiffs want their installations removed from the list.
What are the courts doing, getting involved in this?
People have a right to try and convince the base closure commission that their bases shouldn't be closed. That is the proper way of stopping a base closure according to established guidelines.
This panel should be immune from lawsuits.
Other economically depressed areas have lost their bases in the past; they recovered and moved on. Why can't Connecticut and Tennessee do the same? In those two states, the courts ruled that the respective governors of those states would suffer hardships. Yeah, so what?
It looks like the courts just mentioned are propping up those governors and that isn't right either. That's probably not what's happening, but the appearance isn't good.
When it reaches the Supreme Court, this will be decided, and it might be time to change some procedures on how the Pentagon closes bases down to prevent a future occurance of judicial interference.
The Supreme Court decided not to get involved yet as these lawsuits are going through the court system so it will be a while before anything is set in stone.
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