Judge Blocks Pentagon's Effort To 'Punish' Anthropic With Supply Chain Risk Label
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/27/0047211/judge-blocks-pentagons-effort-to-punish-anthropic-with-supply-chain-risk-label
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> A federal judge in California has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon's effort to "punish" Anthropic by [1]labeling it a supply chain risk and attempting to sever government ties with the AI company, [2]ruling that those measures ran roughshod over its constitutional rights . "Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government," US District Judge Rita Lin wrote in a stinging 43-page ruling.
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> Lin, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, said she would delay implementation of her ruling for one week to allow the government to appeal. But in her ruling, she made it clear she disapproved of the government's actions, which she said violated the company's First Amendment and due process rights. [...] "These broad measures do not appear to be directed at the government's stated national security interests," she wrote. "The Department of War's records show that it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk because of its 'hostile manner through the press.'" "Punishing Anthropic for bringing public scrutiny to the government's contracting position is classic illegal First Amendment retaliation," she added.
"We're grateful to the court for moving swiftly, and pleased they agree Anthropic is likely to succeed on the merits," an Anthropic spokesperson said after the ruling. "While this case was necessary to protect Anthropic, our customers, and our partners, our focus remains on working productively with the government to ensure all Americans benefit from safe, reliable AI."
[1] https://slashdot.org/story/26/03/05/2233247/pentagon-formally-designates-anthropic-a-supply-chain-risk
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/business/anthropic-pentagon-injunction-supply-chain-risk
Next (Score:2)
- WorldCup cannot be held in US or Mexico. Canada to be the only host
- Cease and desist order banning all Americans from using oxygen in the air
- American hockey team will be ordered to surrender the cup to Canada
- China will be ordered to annex Taiwan and the US will be ordered to stand down
- NATO ordered to accept China, India, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan or disband
- UN will be abolished, all unused budget surrendered to the issuing judge
- All gas/diesel cars/ships/planes worldwide destroyed imm
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Seems pretty "special" to me...
Re: Next (Score:2)
Trying to figure out a common streak here and failing, miserably failing....
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All hallucinations?
factual errors? (Score:3)
"There are dozens of factual errors in the 42 page judgment" according to the Defense Department’s chief technology officer, Emil Michael. But "He did not specify or describe the errors he said were present."
Re: factual errors? (Score:4, Funny)
They are beautiful errors, the biggest errors you've ever seen. And you're a horrible person. Next!
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Emil Michael is using alternative facts .
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> "There are dozens of factual errors in the 42 page judgment" according to the Defense Department’s chief technology officer, Emil Michael. But "He did not specify or describe the errors he said were present."
I watched a video talking about the state of disarray in the DOJ in New Jersey; all the good lawyers have quit and none of their replacements have any good legal experience. This makes me expect that the rest of the prosecutors in this Clown Administration are equally bad.
The greatest national security risk (Score:2)
is sitting in the oval office as we speak. And he is there because the people of the United States wanted him there.
Therefore, the greatest national security risk to the United States of America is the american people themselves .
Trump is just a symptom. He is not immortal, and when he finally kicks the bucket, the american people will simply replace him with the next grifter in line which will tell them what they want to hear.
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> Trump is just a symptom. He is not immortal, and when he finally kicks the bucket, the american people will simply replace him with the next grifter in line which will tell them what they want to hear.
There's the risk of that. The bigger problem is that he's basically the face the Republicans are hiding behind. Project 2025, one of the most extremist political agendas in modern American history, is a Republican, not a Trump thing. And they're using Trump to get it done.
And as long as the Republicans an
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Less than 50% of the votes cast were cast for Trump in 3 separate general elections. That means only a minority of the people wanted him there. A gullible, easily misled minority. Or as Trump would say, suckers and losers.
Shameless (Score:2)
> [Defense Department’s chief technology officer, Emil Michael] indicated the Pentagon plans to appeal, calling the ruling a “disgrace”
These people have no shame.
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Trump lawyer: "Justice has prevailed."
Trump: "Appeal immediately!"
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If that were true then why not get a "team player" the first time? This judge has a Harvard Law degree.
Who knew? (Score:2)
Turns out the Trumpian tactics of attacking everyone, punishing everyone, and beating everyone into submission are particularly effective. Who could possible have predicted that?
I'm just surprised it has taken so long.
So it was illegal (Score:3)
Just like the tariffs they admin does unlawful thing, probably knows it's unlawful and is able to just do it anyway and reap the political benefits (here they were able to smear Anthropic's reputation in the public sphere) and the only consequences they face is "hey, knock it off". The admin got to do their tariffs for over a year even though we all knew it was illegal. No consequences thus far.
God-willing when the new non-GOP admin comes back into power the newly appointed AG will be prosecutor (like Jack Smith) who will investigate and start punishing these people and follow through.
We had a President who tried to unite the nation, put the past behind us, not antagonize the opposition party and his name was Joe Biden. That approach of being the better people, taking the high road obviously did not work so the nice guy approach has to stop. Some people need to go to prison and every member of this cabinet should be barred form holding any future public office.
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I'm with you on the first part of your post. Trump likely did know his actions were illegal, but did it anyway, thinking that some of his actions would somehow slip through the cracks.
Your characterization of Biden being a "uniter" though, is exaggerated. Biden came down very forcefully on the liberal side of the fence, on every hot-button issue that divided (and divides) Democrats from Republicans. As a centrist myself, I personally despair of either party truly deciding to work with the other.
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Biden and other corporate-friendly Democrats are the center. Certainly right of Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna. Biden is equal to or possibly left of Kamala Harris.
Even Bernie is somewhat moderate depending on how you measure him. He's certainly not New Left, as he eschews multicultural identity politics. While mainstream democrats play nice with corporate donors while simultaneously carrying water for intersectional grievance groups.
A true left wing party doesn't really exist in the US. Certainly nothing s
Re:So it was illegal (Score:5, Interesting)
Why would the GOP willingly give up power? They've gone all-in on this man, much of the GOP's very survival depends on not letting Democrats back into power. 2026 is going to be a huge surprise to Democrats that thought we are still following "established norms".
Classic autocrat behavior is to get every industrial leader under you. Scratch each other's backs, and shut down any opposition to the arrangement. I know I'll take crap here for bringing up Mussolini, but what do you all think the odds are that we'll soon have a Department of Corporations not unlike Italy's old Minister of Corporations?