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Journalists fired by Pete Hegseth from Stars and Stripes are suing to get their jobs back, and a federal judge struck down the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation for Anthropic as pretextual. Both rulings signal courts rejecting Hegseth's authority.
A federal judge struck down the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation for Anthropic, finding it was pretextual—basically a mask for something else. Separately, journalists fired by Pete Hegseth from Stars and Stripes are suing to get their jobs back and the courts are taking their case seriously. Both rulings reject Hegseth's unilateral authority to make these personnel and vendor decisions.
Courts are signaling that Hegseth's power has limits, and that retaliatory firing and blacklisting require actual justification, not just assertion. The Anthropic ruling is particularly sharp—the judge didn't just reverse the decision, they said the stated reason for it wasn't real. That's a direct call that the Pentagon was using national security language to do something else, likely retaliate against a company seen as insufficiently aligned.
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