Trump asks the Supreme Court to let him rescue TikTok

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

In an amicus brief filed to the court, Trump says helium “seeks the quality to resoluteness the issues astatine manus done governmental means erstwhile helium takes office,” and that helium “alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the governmental volition to negociate a solution to prevention the platform.”

Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to perceive arguments that a measure passed by Congress banning TikTok connected nationalist information grounds violates the First Amendment. While Trump pushed a TikTok prohibition during his archetypal term, helium has changed his tune aft his run successfully utilized the level during the 2024 election. He precocious met with TikTok CEO Shou Chew astatine Mar-a-Lago and told a assemblage that “maybe we gotta support this sucker astir for a small while.”

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

In his Supreme Court filing, Trump asks for the January 19th deadline to beryllium stayed, arguing that the woody he’d negociate “would obviate the request for this Court to determine the historically challenging First Amendment question presented present connected the current, highly expedited basis.”

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