Another Biden-appointed judge has decided she knows better than the Commander-in-Chief when it comes to protecting American troops. According to a court filing reported by The Gateway Pundit, Judge Rita Lin, appointed by the previous administration, just blocked President Trump’s directive that federal agencies—including the Pentagon—cut ties with Anthropic, the AI company that tried to strong-arm the Department of Defense into following its woke terms of service instead of the Constitution.
As detailed in the same court filing, a federal judge is telling the military they must continue using technology from a company that openly defied the Pentagon’s operational requirements. Trump didn’t mince words when he first ordered the freeze last month, stating plainly that ‘the Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War’—a statement he made in his official announcement. He was right then, and he’s right now.
The President’s order wasn’t some arbitrary political move—it was a necessary response to a company putting its own ideological preferences above national security, as outlined in reports from The Gateway Pundit. Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude apparently came with strings attached, demanding the military comply with corporate terms of service rather than constitutional authority. Since when does a tech company get to dictate how America fights and wins wars?
Judge Lin claims Trump’s ban violates the First Amendment, which is an interesting legal theory given that the President isn’t restricting anyone’s speech—he’s deciding how the executive branch spends taxpayer dollars and conducts military operations, according to the court filing. There’s a difference between protecting free speech and forcing the government to buy products from companies that actively undermine its missions.
The judge did grant a one-week stay to allow the Justice Department time to appeal, which suggests even she recognizes this ruling might not hold up under scrutiny. But the pattern is unmistakable: unelected judges continue inserting themselves into matters of national security and executive authority, always seeming to find creative reasons why Trump can’t govern the way every other president has, as noted in The Gateway Pundit coverage.
The administration is appealing, and they should. Because the question here isn’t complicated—should AI companies get to dictate terms to the United States military, or should the President and his appointed commanders decide how to protect American lives? For most of American history, that question answered itself.
Providence watches over the bold.
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