Vendors have the right to do business with whoever they please, and to put conditions on the purchase of their goods and services. Buyers have a matching right to choose among vendors, and to enter only deals that serve their purposes. But when government officials go further and use their power to punish private businesses that won't sell them what they want, they may run afoul of constitutionally protected rights. That's the case in the battle between AI firm Anthropic and the Trump administration.
