Justice Department urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s push to pause TikTok ban
The Justice Department on Friday urged the Supreme Court to reject President-elect Donald Trump’s request to delay the implementation of a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. or force its sale by its Chinese parent company by Jan. 19.
The Justice Department on Friday urged the Supreme Court to reject President-elect Donald Trump’s request to delay the implementation of a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. or force its sale by its Chinese parent company by Jan. 19.
The latest filing in the Supreme Court case comes after Trump’s lawyer D. John Sauer asked the court to pause the law beyond the deadline to give the president-elect “the opportunity to pursue a political resolution to the questions at issue in the case.”
The DOJ argued that Trump’s filing took “no position” on the First Amendment question, which is the basis of the lawsuit that the Supreme Court agreed to hear on a fast-tracked basis. TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, sued to try to stop implementation of the law, arguing that it violates its free speech rights under the First Amendment.
The DOJ said that granting Trump’s request would equate to a temporary injunction and could only be implemented if ByteDance established a likelihood that it would win the case, but that the company had not done so.
The Justice Department also tackled ByteDance’s First Amendment argument head-on in Friday’s filing.
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