{"id":146440,"date":"2026-03-19T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/19\/former-judges-practically-begging-d-c-circuit-to-do-the-right-thing-in-anthropic-case\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:25:39","slug":"former-judges-practically-begging-d-c-circuit-to-do-the-right-thing-in-anthropic-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/19\/former-judges-practically-begging-d-c-circuit-to-do-the-right-thing-in-anthropic-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Judges Practically Begging D.C. Circuit To Do The Right Thing In Anthropic Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Constitution vests the federal judiciary with the duty of ensuring that the Executive Branch does not exceed the powers delegated to it by Congress. That duty does not go away when the Executive purports to act under statutes that protect our nation\u2019s security. This case is a straightforward challenge to unlawful agency action.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0An amicus brief<\/a>, signed by 149 former state and federal judges, urging the D.C. Circuit to find the Department of War\u2019s (lol) designation of AI provider Anthropic<\/a> as a supply chain risk unlawful. Anthropic lost its government contract when it refused to allow the government to have access to autonomous weapons with their technology. The government went a step further (too far) and \u201cpunished [Anthropic] on its way out the door.\u201d The legal issues seem pretty straightforward<\/a>\u2026 if the courts are willing to stand up to Trump. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Former Judges Practically Begging D.C. Circuit To Do The Right Thing In Anthropic Case<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Constitution vests the federal judiciary with the duty of ensuring that the Executive Branch does not exceed the powers delegated to it by Congress. That duty does not go away when the Executive purports to act under statutes that protect our nation\u2019s security. This case is a straightforward challenge to unlawful agency action.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0An amicus brief<\/a>, signed by 149 former state and federal judges, urging the D.C. Circuit to find the Department of War\u2019s (lol) designation of AI provider Anthropic<\/a> as a supply chain risk unlawful. Anthropic lost its government contract when it refused to allow the government to have access to autonomous weapons with their technology. The government went a step further (too far) and \u201cpunished [Anthropic] on its way out the door.\u201d The legal issues seem pretty straightforward<\/a>\u2026 if the courts are willing to stand up to Trump. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The Constitution vests the federal judiciary with the duty of ensuring that the Executive Branch does not exceed the powers delegated to it by Congress. That duty does not go away when the Executive purports to act under statutes that protect our nation\u2019s security. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/law-school-law-student-cross-fingers-pray-GettyImages-904895090-sS67Lk.jpg?fit=2309%2C1299&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}