President-elect Donald Trump has made a last-minute plea to get the United States Supreme Court to halt the implementation of a nationwide TikTok ban.
Congress had passed a law earlier this year banning the popular video-sharing app from January 19 if it is not sold by its Chinese parent company by then.
Executives at the platform then filed an emergency plea with the Supreme Court earlier this month to block the federal law, and on Friday, Trump’s legal team filed its own request to delay the law’s implementation.
“President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute,” D. John Sauer, Trump’s attorney whom he chose as U.S. attorney general, wrote in the filing: according to NBC News.
“Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court consider delaying the January 19, 2025, deadline for the statute’s divestment while it considers the merits of this case, giving President Trump’s new administration the opportunity to pursue a political solution to the issues raised in this case. case.’
“Only President Trump has the perfect deal-making expertise, electoral mandate, and political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the administration’s national security concerns – concerns that President Trump himself has acknowledged,” Sauer continued.
“In light of these interests – including, most importantly, his overarching responsibility for the national security and foreign policy of the United States – President Trump currently opposes the ban on TikTok in the United States and is committed to ability to solve the problems at hand through political means once he takes office.”
Trump has previously expressed opposition to the Protecting Americans from Controlled Applications app that President Joe Biden signed into law in April, promising during the campaign to “save TikTok.”
He even met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew earlier this month to discuss the matter.
President-elect Donald Trump has made a last-minute plea to get the United States Supreme Court to halt the implementation of a nationwide TikTok ban
Congress passed a resolution earlier this year banning the popular video-sharing app starting Jan. 19 if it hasn’t been sold by its Chinese parent company by then
But the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments from both the government and the platform on an urgent basis, starting on January 10. De Heuvel reports this.
They would then have just nine days after oral arguments to issue an opinion or indefinitely block the Protecting Americans from Controlled Applications app — even though Trump doesn’t take office until January 20.
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