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Trump’s Pentagon SLAMMED in Court for RETALIATION SCHEME

2026-04-04 Entertainment
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In this episode, Legal AF’s Ray Brescia dives into a high-stakes, constitutional showdown between Big Tech and the U.S. military. Imagine building one of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence systems, but drawing a hard line: the government cannot use it for lethal autonomous warfare or the mass surveillance of Americans. That is exactly what AI developer Anthropic did with its flagship model, Claude. In this episode, Brescia breaks down the recent ruling by Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California who slammed the brakes on the government's attacks, granting a preliminary injunction to protect Anthropic. The court ruled that punishing an American company for expressing its views isn't national security—it is classic, illegal First Amendment retaliation. Read Judge Lin’s opinion in Anthropic v. Department of War here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.134.0.pdf Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920

Top Comments (10)

@deankovacs 2026-04-04

The renaming of the Department of Defence to the Department of War should have been a HUGE red flag.

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@cindytrott3874 2026-04-04

Glad this company has ethics, respect for the Constitution and the courage to stand up to our corrupt war criminal administration.

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@Bluebird-ix9yt 2026-04-04

Thank you for explaining this issue!

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@koula60 2026-04-04

I appreciate your updates on this case. Thank you

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@spanky7277 2026-04-04

Waste , Fraud And Abuse ? , The defense contractors are winning this one along with the oil companies . But all in all I know who's going to pay in the end , by taking money from our government without a care of who pays for it or who is going down . So the way I look at it they are taking money to help Trump take this country down .. All for their own greed ...

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@pepperwhisperer 2026-04-04

Michael Popok you're an inspiration for greatness in all Americans

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@edmorey8140 2026-04-04

Say it, it's extortion anyone csn see it.

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@alansmith4734 2026-04-04

I can't wait until Google gets sued and changes the Gulf of America back to Gulf of Mexico!

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@47650 2026-04-04

Excellent Information. I hope Anthropic wins against the adminstration.

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@mellissadalby1402 2026-04-04

Anthropic is 100% right in this.

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