Lawfare Live: A Hearing on Anthropic's Preliminary Injunction Motion
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Following the March 24 hearing in Anthropic's suit challenging its supply chain designation on the AI company's request for a preliminary injunction, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Kate Klonick, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff for a live discussion of what occurred.
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. |
| 0:07.3 | It's Lawfare Live. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief. |
| 0:12.8 | It is 6.20 p.m. Eastern Time on March 24th, |
| 0:18.4 | 20206. |
| 0:19.8 | And I am here with Lawfare Senior Editors, Roger Parloff, |
| 0:25.4 | Kate Clonick, and Molly Roberts to discuss the hearing that just wrapped up on Anthropics |
| 0:33.2 | request for a preliminary injunction against the Department of Defense, Judge Lynn. |
| 0:41.7 | I know that Anthropic is very courteously calling this the Department of War in this litigation, |
| 0:51.4 | but that does not mean that you, an officer of a co-equal branch of government |
| 0:57.5 | that owes more to Congress, being that Congress both created and named the Department of Defense |
| 1:04.7 | and created the Northern District of California, a district court on which you serve, you owe more to |
| 1:15.4 | Congress than you do to the executive branch, which has no authority to rename the Department |
| 1:22.0 | of Defense. And I was very disappointed to see Judge Lynn calling at the Department of War throughout. |
| 1:30.2 | Today, I'm sure that is not what is interested my panelists about this, but I just wanted to put it out there. |
| 1:40.8 | I'm against it. |
| 1:43.4 | Molly, get us started. It was a good long hearing. Give us an overview. What happened? |
| 1:54.2 | Yeah, as Michael Mungan, who was the lead counsel for Anthropics said at one point, where to begin. So we knew going into the hearing |
| 2:05.5 | that much of the focus was going to be on the statutory questions, although Anthropic had also |
| 2:13.9 | made First Amendment retaliation claims and due process claims because Judge Lynn had |
| 2:18.9 | provided this list of questions to go through. And we did hear the parties each address those |
| 2:25.3 | questions, but it turned out there was substantial focus on the other issues too, not necessarily |
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