The recent lawsuit brought by Elon Musk’s SpaceX challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) might seem to have little to do with Starbucks. The Seattle-based coffee giant has publicly distanced itself from SpaceX’s frontal assault on the nearly 90-year-old labor law regulator. (See Elon Musk’s War on the New Deal—and Democracy by Caroline Fredrickson, the Georgetown Law Center professor, in the Washington Monthly.)
However, when Starbucks argued before the Supreme Court last week...