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"We will enable political solutions"/ Trump asks the Supreme Court to postpone the ban on TikTok

2024-12-28 08:51:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
"We will enable political solutions"/ Trump asks the Supreme Court to
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US President-elect Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to delay a legal deadline forcing the sale or ban of TikTok to allow for a "political solution" after he is sworn in as president next month.

Under a law passed by Congress in April, Chinese parent company ByteDance must sell TikTok by January 19, 2025, the day before Trump is inaugurated as president, or face a nationwide ban.

The legislation was passed after warnings from US officials that the platform posed national security risks.

However, Trump has asked the Supreme Court to delay the deadline while it reviews the validity of the case, to give his incoming administration "an opportunity to pursue a policy resolution to the issues at hand," according to a filing filed Friday. December 27.

During the re-election campaign, Trump said he was against banning the platform and promised to "save" the app.

Efforts to do so represent a turnaround from 2020, when former President Trump issued an executive order to block the app in the US and gave ByteDance 90 days to give up its US assets and any data that TikTok had collected in the USA. That order was blocked by the courts and eventually overturned by US President Joe Biden, who later signed the law at the heart of the case.

The filing said: "President Trump, alone, possesses the consummate negotiating expertise, electoral mandate and political will to negotiate a solution to save the platform by addressing the national security concerns expressed by the government, concerns that President Trump himself has accepted."

Also, the document states that Trump "does not take a position on the fundamental validity of this dispute."

TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump, as president, will have no authority over the Supreme Court, amid a complicated legal process that will decide the fate of the popular US app.

The Supreme Court has scheduled the hearing of oral arguments in this case on January 10





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