US Top News and Analysis | Anthropic and U.S. government to face off in DC court over blacklisting of AI company

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A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. will hear arguments on Tuesday in Anthropic’s lawsuit challenging the Pentagon’s decision to label the AI startup a “supply‑chain risk,” a designation historically reserved for foreign adversaries that forces defense contractors to certify they will not use the company’s Claude models. Anthropic sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Department of Defense in March after negotiations broke down— the DOD demanded unfettered access to its models for all lawful purposes, while Anthropic sought assurances its technology would not be used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance. The court will hear 15‑minute presentations from each side before three circuit judges, who will issue a written opinion; the appeals court has already denied Anthropic’s request for a temporary injunction but expedited the case, noting the company could suffer irreparable harm. Anthropic argues the risk designation violates the Constitution and existing procedures, while the government contends the company could embed restrictions that pose an “untenable national‑security risk.” A parallel suit in San Francisco has granted a preliminary injunction allowing non‑DoD agencies to use Anthropic’s models while litigation continues.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-dod-blacklist-court-opening-arguments.html

#Anthropic #PeteHegseth #DCCircuit #Pentagon #USgovernment #DarioAmodei

Appeals Court Upholds Block Of ICE’s BS ‘Seven Day Notice’ Detention Center Inspection Policy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/15/appeals-court-upholds-block-of-ices-bs-seven-day-notice-detention-center-inspection-policy/

Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance – IPWatchdog.com -Patents & Intellectual Property Law

By Eileen McDermott, 7 hours ago

Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance

“The question here is not whether the Register of Copyrights or the Librarian of Congress has any functions that can be characterized as ‘executive’ for constitutional purposes; it is whether Congress decided to organize the Library as an ‘Executive agency’”.

Two weeks after the Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an interlocutory injunction issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in September that allowed Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter to return to her post pending her lawsuit against President Donald Trump for allegedly illegally removing her from office, Perlmutter has responded.

In her opposition to the application for a stay, filed on Monday, Perlmutter accused the administration of making “an inexcusable mess of Congress’s plans for the governance of its Library.”

Trump’s application argued that the D.C. appellate court’s injunction represents “another case of improper judicial interference with the President’s power to remove executive officers” and that its “analysis contravenes settled precedent and misconceives the Librarian’s and Register’s legal status.” The powers of the Librarian and Register have been classified as executive by the Supreme Court, said the administration’s brief, “such as the power to issue rules implementing a federal statute, to issue orders in administrative adjudications, and even to conduct foreign relations relating to copyright issues.”

But Perlmutter argued in her opposition that “the question here is not whether the Register of Copyrights or the Librarian of Congress has any functions that can be characterized as ‘executive’ for constitutional purposes; it is whether Congress decided to organize the Library as an ‘Executive agency’—not just for purposes of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (“FVRA”), 5 U.S.C. § 3345 et seq., but for all of the purposes for which the same definition of “Executive agency” is used in Title 5, 5 U.S.C. § 105.”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance – IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance

#inexcusableMess #copyright #dCCircuit #donaldTrump #intellectualProperty #ipwatchdogCom #libraryOfCongress #patents #scotus #shiraPerlmutter #trump #uSCongress #uSCourtOfAppeals

With an assist from @lawdorknews.bsky.social, I have updated my post from Wednesday about challenges to Russel Vought’s attempt to dismiss up to 90% of the CFPB’s employees. D.C. Circuit upholds the District Court’s stay on the action, with former White House counsel during Trump 1.0 joining the majority.

#law #contracts #CFPB #litigation #injunctions #DCCircuit

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/recap-of-administration-attempt-to-fire-employees-of-the-consumer-finance-protection-bureau.html

US Court Rules That Censoring Whole Platforms Like TikTok Protects Free Speech

A DC Circuit court has upheld the governments effort to censor the entirety of TikTok... claiming such a move protects free speech?

Imagine if you would a major television news network that reports the news every day.

https://www.freezenet.ca/us-court-rules-that-censoring-whole-platforms-like-tiktok-protects-free-speech/

#Censorship #LawAndTechnology #News #appeal #court #DC #DCCircuit #ruling #TikTok

Now that the opinion is out...

#law #lawfedi #lawyer #dccircuit #CoA #immunity #trump #uspol #politics #uspolitics

D.C. Circuit Denies Trump Appeals of Gag Order
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has denied Trump's request to hear an appeal of the gag order imposed by Judge Tanya Chutkan in the federal election interference case.

Team Trump submitted appeal requests to both the three-judge panel who originally heard the appeal as well as the full D.C
https://newsviews.online/2024/01/23/d-c-circuit-denies-trump-appeals-of-gag-order/
#TrumpTrials #DCCircuit #GagOrder

Not a fan of George Conway, but credit where it's due — this opening ¶ of this essay is beautifully scathing!

Essay is about the hearing whether to grant Trump total immunity (and how Trump team lost the hearing)

#Trump #criminalImmunity #DCCircuit #EpicBurn

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/trump-immunity-hearing-2020-election/677072/

Excellent recap of the DC Circuit oral arguments on Trump’s immunity claim, as always.

Insight into what the judge’s questions may indicate about their eventual opinions.

@lawfare

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast/id498897343?i=1000641154964

#law #lawfedi #dccircuit #courtofappeals #immunity #trump