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Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
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The Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal, a federal judge ruled in an order vacating government directives against the use of the firm’s AI technology.
Key facts
- The government illegally retaliated against Anthropic by designating it a supply-chain risk to national security, said yesterday’s ruling by Judge Rita Lin in the US District Court for the Northern
- The Trump administration could appeal the ruling and is continuing to make its case in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals
- The Trump administration won an early ruling from Trump-appointed judges in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which denied Anthropic’s emergency motion for a stay
- The Computer & Communications Industry Association, a lobby group for tech firms, said it is “encouraged by this outcome, as this case matters to anyone doing business with the US government
Summary
The government illegally retaliated against Anthropic by designating it a supply-chain risk to national security, said yesterday’s ruling by Judge Rita Lin in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. “The undisputed record shows that the challenged actions constituted unlawful retaliation in violation of the First Amendment,” Lin wrote in an order that granted key portions of Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment. As Lin noted, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “ordered all federal agencies to permanently stop using Anthropic’s products, and banned all defense contractors from doing any business with Anthropic, even if unrelated to the military.” Lin vacated those government actions and ordered the Trump administration to rescind the directives that she deemed illegal.