U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., December 22, 2024.
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President-elect Donald Trump submitted an amicus temporary with the Supreme Court on Friday asking the excessive courtroom to pause implementation of a legislation that will ban TikTok within the U.S. on Jan. 19 if the app isn’t offered by its Chinese mother or father firm.
The courtroom is because of hear arguments in the case on Jan. 10.
“President Trump takes no place on the underlying deserves of this dispute,” writes D. John Sauer, Trump’s lawyer who can be the president-elect’s nominee for U.S. Solicitor General. “Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court contemplate staying the Act’s deadline for divestment of January 19, 2025, whereas it considers the deserves of this case, thus allowing President Trump’s incoming Administration the chance to pursue a political decision of the questions at situation within the case.”
That legislation on the coronary heart of the go well with is the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, a bipartisan measure handed by Congress and subsequently signed into legislation by President Joe Biden in April.
The legislation would require TikTok’s Chinese proprietor, ByteDance, to promote the platform to an American firm or face a ban.
Earlier this month, the courtroom decided to listen to the case and fast-tracked the schedule for briefing and oral arguments. However, the courtroom punted on TikTok’s request to pause implementation of the ban, leaving simply 9 days after oral arguments for them to situation an opinion or indefinitely block the legislation.
Trump, in his courtroom submitting, advised he may negotiate a political decision to the matter earlier than the courtroom must rule.
“President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking experience, the electoral mandate, and the political will to barter a decision to save lots of the platform whereas addressing the nationwide safety considerations expressed by the Government—considerations which President Trump himself has acknowledged,” Sauer wrote.
