US president-elect Donald Trump on Friday filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court in the TikTok ban case, urging the top court to temporarily halt a law requiring the Chinese-owned app to be banned by January 19, 2025, unless sold to a non-Chinese buyer.
“President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute. Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court consider staying the act’s deadline for divestment of January 19, 2025, while it considers the merits of this case, thus permitting President Trump’s incoming administration the opportunity to pursue a political resolution of the questions at issue in the case,” the submission said.
It added that the “case presents an unprecedented, novel and difficult tension between free-speech rights on one side and foreign policy and national-security concerns on the other”, Trump’s filing said.
The filing further stated that Trump “has a particularly powerful interest in and responsibility for those national-security and foreign-policy questions and he is the right constitutional actor to resolve the dispute through political means”.
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