President-elect Donald Trump has requested the Supreme Court docket to let him negotiate a deal to save lots of TikTok from an imminent US ban.
In an amicus transient filed to the courtroom, Trump says he “seeks the power to resolve the problems at hand via political means as soon as he takes workplace,” and that he “alone possesses the consummate dealmaking experience, the electoral mandate, and the political will to barter a decision to save lots of the platform.”
Final week, the Supreme Court docket agreed to listen to arguments {that a} invoice handed by Congress banning TikTok on nationwide safety grounds violates the First Modification. Whereas Trump pushed a TikTok ban throughout his first time period, he has modified his tune after his marketing campaign efficiently used the platform through the 2024 election. He not too long ago met with TikTok CEO Shou Chew at Mar-a-Lago and advised a crowd that “perhaps we gotta hold this sucker round for a short while.”
The invoice that will see TikTok banned in January provides vast latitude to the president to delay its enforcement if there’s progress being made in the direction of a deal making certain TikTok isn’t totally managed by its Chinese language father or mother firm, ByteDance. However the deadline for that dedication is January nineteenth, which is someday earlier than Trump is about to imagine the presidency.
In his Supreme Court docket submitting, Trump asks for the January nineteenth deadline to be stayed, arguing that the deal he’d negotiate “would obviate the necessity for this Court docket to resolve the traditionally difficult First Modification query introduced right here on the present, extremely expedited foundation.”
