Over the weekend, I analogized the administration’s brass-knuckles tactics against the AI giant Anthropic to the president’s extortionate executive orders that sought to put several law firms he didn’t like out of business.

Naturally, that prompts the question: What ever happened to those EOs?

Well, as I noted in the post:

Several judges have struck down these extortionate directives (see, e.g., here and here.) At the time, I described them as, functionally, unconstitutional bills of attainder or bills of pain and penalty: provisions that condemn a person or category of persons for alleged wrongs and impose penalties, all........

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