# Judge Rita F. Lin Tells Pentagon: You Can't Cripple Anthropic

- slug: judge-rita-f-lin-tells-pentagon-you-cant-cripple-anthropic
- date: 2026-03-27
- category: Artificial Intelligence

A federal judge granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction Thursday, pausing the Trump administration's blacklisting of the company from federal contracts — and used the word that Anthropic had been waiting to hear from a courtroom.

It looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic.

That was Judge ...

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