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Article: Anthropic sues US over blacklisting; White House calls firm "radical left, woke"

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Anthropic is suing the Trump administration, arguing its blacklisting was unconstitutional retaliation for the company's refusal to let its Claude AI be used for autonomous warfare and mass surveillance. The lawsuit claims the government violated Anthropic's First Amendment rights by punishing it for expressing its views on AI safety and for refusing certain military applications.

The company also contends the "Supply-Chain Risk to National Security" designation was applied improperly, as the legal process is meant for risks of foreign sabotage, not for domestic policy disagreements. Furthermore, Anthropic alleges the executive branch overstepped its authority and violated due process under the Fifth Amendment by issuing a sweeping ban without proper congressional authorization.

The main topics covered are the lawsuit, the First Amendment retaliation claim, the disputed supply-chain risk designation, and the alleged executive overreach and due process violations.

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/anthropic-sues-us-over-blacklisting-white-house-calls-firm-radical-left-woke/

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2026-03-10 18:26

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Anthropic sued the Trump administration yesterday in an attempt to reverse the government’s decision to blacklist its technology. Anthropic argues that it exercised its First Amendment rights by refusing to let its Claude AI models be used for autonomous warfare and mass surveillance of Americans and that the government blacklisted it in retaliation.
“When Anthropic held fast to its judgment that Claude cannot safely or reliably be used for autonomous lethal warfare and mass surveillance of Americans, the President directed every federal agency to ‘IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology’—even though the Department of War had previously agreed to those same conditions,” Anthropic said in a lawsuit in US District Court for the Northern District of California. “Hours later, the Secretary of War [Pete Hegseth] directed his Department to designate Anthropic a ‘Supply-Chain Risk to National Security,’ and further directed that ‘effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.’”
Anthropic said the First Amendment gives it “the right to express its views—both publicly and to the government—about the limitations of its own AI services and important issues of AI safety.” Anthropic further argued that the process for designating it a supply chain risk did not comply with the procedures mandated by Congress. The supply chain risk designation is supposed to be used only to protect against risks that an adversary may sabotage systems used for national security, the lawsuit said.
Trump’s directive “requiring every federal agency to immediately cease all use of Anthropic’s technology, and actions taken by other defendants in response to that directive, are outside any authority that Congress has granted the Executive,” and violate the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause, Anthropic said.