A day before he takes office on January 20, President-elect Donald Trump made a request to the Supreme Court on Friday to put a hold on a law that would prohibit or mandate the sale of TikTok. He stated that he wanted to “negotiate a resolution” to save the social media platform while also addressing the purported national-security concerns that are posed by the site.
John Sauer, whom Trump has appointed to the position of solicitor general, argued in a court brief that the timing of the ban interfered with Trump’s “ability to manage the United States’ foreign policy and to pursue a resolution to both protect national security and save a social-media platform that provides a popular vehicle for 170 million Americans to exercise their core First Amendment rights.” Sauer is a candidate for the position of solicitor general. In his first term, President Trump attempted to prohibit the use of the app TikTok, whose parent firm, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing. However, he has since stated that he is opposed to such a move.
Regarding the statute that was passed earlier this year, the Supreme Court is going to make a decision.
