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A federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unconstitutional retaliation for the company's refusal to drop its AI safety red lines. The decision draws a sharper and narrower boundary than the headlines suggest: the government can fire a vendor it distrusts, but it cannot punish one for talking back.
Mail-ballot rules, voter roll purges, mass visa revocations, and the campaign against Fed Governor Lisa Cook look like four separate legal fights. Trace what actually survived the courts this summer, and a single method emerges, along with an uncomfortable lesson about which checks on presidential power still work.
The US just erased Syria's 47-year terrorism designation and embraced a president who once led al-Qaeda's Syrian branch. The record shows Ahmed al-Sharaa has delivered more than skeptics admit, but Washington structured the deal so its remaining leverage is personal, not legal.