President-elect Donald ***** has asked the Supreme Court to delay the law that could ban TikTok until after his inauguration. In an amicus brief, *****’s attorney D. John Sauer wrote that the future president wants the opportunity to find a solution to the problem “through political means.”
The law requiring a ban or sale of TikTok is set to take effect on January 19, 2025, just one day before *****’s inauguration. The brief calls the ban date “unfortunately timed”and argues the incoming president should have more time to work on a deal with TikTok. TikTok’s legal team cited a similar concern in its requests for a delay of the ban. The brief also cites *****’s “dealmaking” experience and his social media platform Truth Social.
“President ***** 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 ***** himself has acknowledged,” Sauer writes.
*****’s stance on a TikTok is much different from the one he took in his first term, when he pursued a ban of the app in 2020. He also floated the idea that Microsoft could “work out a deal, an appropriate deal, so the Treasury of the United States gets a lot of money” without explaining exactly how such a deal would work.
President ***** reversed his opinion on a TikTok ban during his second campaign. He told CNBC’s Squawk Box in March that banning TikTok would “make Facebook bigger and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media.”
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on the ban on January 10.
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