Trump Asks The Supreme Court To Let Him Rescue Tiktok

President-elect Donald Trump has asked nan Supreme Court to fto him talk a woody to prevention TikTok from an imminent US ban.

In an amicus little revenge to nan court, Trump says he “seeks nan expertise to resoluteness nan issues astatine manus done governmental intends erstwhile he takes office,” and that he “alone possesses nan consummate dealmaking expertise, nan electoral mandate, and nan governmental will to talk a solution to prevention nan platform.”

Last week, nan Supreme Court agreed to comprehend arguments that a measurement passed by Congress banning TikTok connected nationalist accusation grounds violates nan First Amendment. While Trump pushed a TikTok prohibition during his first term, he has changed his tune aft his tally successfully utilized nan level during nan 2024 election. He precocious met pinch TikTok CEO Shou Chew astatine Mar-a-Lago and told a crowd that “maybe we gotta support this sucker astir for a mini while.”

The measurement that would spot TikTok banned successful January gives wide latitude to nan president to clasp its enforcement if there’s advancement being made towards a woody ensuring TikTok isn’t afloat controlled by its Chinese genitor company, ByteDance. But nan deadline for that determination is January 19th, which is 1 clip earlier Trump is group to presume nan presidency.

In his Supreme Court filing, Trump asks for nan January 19th deadline to beryllium stayed, arguing that nan woody he’d talk “would obviate nan petition for this Court to find nan historically challenging First Amendment mobility presented coming connected nan current, highly expedited basis.”

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