Trump asks Supreme Courtroom to let him rescue TikTok from US ban

President-elect Donald Trump has requested the Supreme Courtroom to let him negotiate a deal to avoid wasting TikTok from an imminent US ban.

In an amicus temporary filed to the courtroom, Trump says he “seeks the power to resolve the problems at hand by 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 avoid wasting the platform.”

Final week, the Supreme Courtroom 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 throughout the 2024 election. He just lately met with TikTok CEO Shou Chew at Mar-a-Lago and instructed a crowd that “possibly we gotta hold this sucker round for a short while.”

The invoice that might see TikTok banned in January provides extensive latitude to the president to delay its enforcement if there’s progress being made in 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 willpower is January nineteenth, which is someday earlier than Trump is ready to imagine the presidency.

In his Supreme Courtroom submitting, Trump asks for the January nineteenth deadline to be stayed, arguing that the deal he’d negotiate “would obviate the necessity for this Courtroom to resolve the traditionally difficult First Modification query introduced right here on the present, extremely expedited foundation.”