The decision allows the Pentagon to continue to remove Anthropic’s Claude models from its systems and bar the use of its products for Defense Department work.
The dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic started earlier this year when the tech firm refused to remove internal guardrails to prevent the military from using its Claude AI model in weapons and surveillance
President Donald Trump said he was "not surprised" to hear of confidential documents revealing plans to sue him nearly seven months before he was reelected. State AGs have sued the Trump Administration approximately 100 times since January 2025.
A union that represents Treasury Department and IRS employees has joined in a lawsuit previously brought to block the Trump administration's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams earlier this month heavily criticized the case and claimed the suit was brought for an "improper purpose" to secure funding for a project not approved by Congress.
The latest request is related to the larger jury award, which the president urged the justices to reject, asserting that its 2024 decision giving presidents sweeping immunity for actions they take in office shielded him from liability in the case.
More than two dozen states have sued the Trump administration after it required them to comply with election and immigration conditions to get billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters