{"id":4194,"date":"2024-12-28T08:21:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T08:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-law-that-could-ban-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T08:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T08:21:41","slug":"trump-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-law-that-could-ban-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-law-that-could-ban-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump asks Supreme Court to pause law that could ban TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday urged the Supreme Court to pause a law that could ban TikTok nationwide<\/a> starting Jan. 19 if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the popular social media app to an American company.<\/p>\n

In a 25-page amicus brief<\/a> filed with the court, Trump asked the justices to stay the Jan. 19 deadline — which is one day before Inauguration Day — so his administration could “pursue a negotiated resolution” that would “obviate the need” for the justices to rule on the case.<\/p>\n

“President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the Government — concerns which President Trump himself has acknowledged,” the brief stated.<\/p>\n

TikTok and its parent company, China-based ByteDance, appealed to the Supreme Court last week after lower courts rejected its challenge to the law. The justices agreed to hear the challenge<\/a> and set oral arguments in the case for Jan. 10.<\/p>\n

The law at the center of the case — called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act — stems from bipartisan concerns that the Chinese government could access data about American users.<\/p>\n

TikTok argues<\/a>the law violates free speech rights under the First Amendment for its roughly 170 million American users.<\/p>\n

In his brief on Friday, Trump said he takes “no position on the merits of the dispute.” Instead, he suggested he intends to personally negotiate a resolution that focuses on “preserving the First Amendment rights of tens of millions of Americans, while also addressing the government’s national security concerns.”<\/p>\n

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew met with Trump at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last week, NBC News reported<\/a>citing a source familiar with the plans.<\/p>\n

During a press conference earlier that day, Trump said he has a “warm spot” for TikTok and said his team would “take a look” at the app and the possible ban it faces.<\/p>\n

TikTok<\/a> and the Justice Department<\/a> also filed briefs in the case on Friday, reiterating their respective arguments on the matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hayley Miller<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hayley Miller is the senior blog editor for BLN. Previously, she was a senior reporter on HuffPost’s breaking news team. Before she was a reporter, she was a senior editor on HuffPost’s blog team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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