Federal Judge Rules Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist Illegal

US District Judge Rita Lin ruled August 27 in San Francisco that the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic was illegal and baseless. The 59-page ruling barred agencies from enforcing Trump's order to drop Claude, stating national security is "not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics." Anthropic won one of two challenges; a second designation remains pending.