Colorado’s legal professional basic is suing the Trump administration over the White Home’s plans to maneuver the headquarters of U.S. House Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama.
The White Home introduced its plan to maneuver House Command headquarters to Alabama at a press occasion in September 2025. Throughout the occasion, Trump acknowledged that Colorado’s mail-in poll coverage performed into his resolution to relocate House Command to Alabama. “The issue I had with Colorado, one of many massive issues, they do mail-in voting, they went to all mail-in voting, so that they have mechanically crooked elections,” Trump stated. Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Kamala Harris gained Colorado by 11% within the 2024 presidential election.
U.S. House Command (SPACECOM) is chargeable for overseeing and distributing space-based capabilities all through the complete U.S. army.
The U.S. House Drive is its personal department of the U.S. Armed Forces that trains and equips personnel to “safe our nationwide pursuits in, from, and to area,” and a few House Drive personnel are assigned to serve in House Command alongside members of different branches of the U.S. army serving in space-facing models.
House Command has been headquartered at Peterson House Drive Base (previously Peterson Air Drive Base) in Colorado Springs since its creation in 1982. Colorado Springs can also be residence to Schriever House Drive Base and the U.S. Air Drive Academy, which serves because the officer coaching corps for the House Drive.
The U.S. Air Drive chosen Huntsville because the everlasting residence for U.S. House Command in 2021 throughout Trump’s first time period, which drew criticism from Colorado lawmakers as being a political transfer.
Former President Joe Biden reversed that call in 2023, citing the top of House Command on the time, Gen. James Dickinson, who informed Biden the transfer would “jeopardize army readiness,” in line with the Related Press. That call, too, was cited as being politically motivated. Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville stated Biden’s reversal “seems to be like blatant patronage politics.”
And it seems to be just like the relocation of U.S. House Command continues to be a political tug-of-war. Throughout the September press convention asserting the transfer, Trump additionally insinuated that the relocation was influenced by 2024’s election outcomes.
“I’m thrilled to report that the U.S. House Command headquarters will transfer to the gorgeous locale of a spot referred to as Huntsville, Alabama, endlessly to be recognized from this level ahead as ‘Rocket Metropolis,'” Trump stated in the course of the announcement on Sept. 2. “We love Alabama. I solely gained it by about 47 factors. I do not suppose that influenced my resolution, proper?”
