A federal judge granting Anthropics request for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the Trump administration.

McKenzie Segalos is following that in today's tech check. Mac.

So Mike, here in San Francisco, a federal judge blocking the administration's effort to blacklist Anthropic.

Judge Rita Lynn granting a motion to hit pause on both the Pentagon supply chain risk designation and President Trump's order

cutting the company off from federal agencies while the case moves forward.

The government now has seven days to appeal before it takes effect.

To be clear, the judge is not ordering the Pentagon to keep using Claude, and she's also

not handing Anthropic control over how its tech is used by the military.

The government remains free to stop using Anthropic and switch to another AI vendor.

In the 43 page order, the judge writes that the government's actions don't appear tied to its stated

national security interests at all, but instead look designed to punish Anthropic for criticizing

the government's contracting

position in the press.

For now, her ruling restores the status quo February 27th before the directives were issued.

That means that the freeze applies not just to the Pentagon action, but also to the president's

government-wide ban covering 17 agencies, including NASA and the SEC,

that had been moving to cut ties with Anthropic.

The legal fight now shifts to Washington.

Whereas here are the cases about constitutional claims, protected speech, and due process.

In D.C., the question is whether the administration stretched a law meant for foreign adversary contractors far beyond its intended use.

We're expecting a decision from that panel of three judges imminently, and if they find in favor of the government, enforcement could get messy fast, leaving in limbo enterprise customers and defense contractors like Palantir that have built

critical workflows with Claude code. Guys? It's also a question for this IPO, and there's

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