Trump urges SCOTUS to delay TikTok ruling
Silicon Valley tech pioneer Allison Huynh joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to weigh in on President-elect Trump’s determination to ask the Supreme Court docket to carry off on deciding the way forward for social media platform TikTok.
The Republican attorneys common of Virginia and Montana not too long ago filed an amicus transient asking the Supreme Court docket to require TikTok to sever its ties with the Chinese language Communist Get together (CCP) because the destiny of the social media platform within the U.S. stays unsure.
The amicus transient, filed Friday, got here the identical day President-elect Trump filed an amicus transient of his personal, asking the Supreme Court docket to pause the TikTok ban and permit him to make govt choices about TikTok as soon as he’s inaugurated.
In an announcement, Virginia Lawyer Common Jason Miyares stated he, together with Montana Lawyer Common Austin Knudsen and different state authorized officers, had not too long ago petitioned the Supreme Court docket to uphold the divest-or-ban legislation towards TikTok.
The social media firm has been intensely scrutinized over its mum or dad firm, ByteDance, which is linked to the CCP. In his transient, Miyares argued whistleblower studies show ByteDance has shared delicate data with the CCP, together with People’ searching habits and facial recognition information.
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Jason Miyares and Donald Trump made separate pleas to the Supreme Court docket Friday. (Getty Photos/AP Photos)
“Allowing TikTok to operate in the United States without severing its ties to the Chinese Communist Party exposes Americans to the undeniable risks of having their data accessed and exploited by the Chinese Communist Party,” Miyares stated in a press release. “Virginians deserve a authorities that stands agency in defending their privateness and safety.
“The Supreme Court now has the chance to affirm Congress’s authority to protect Americans from foreign threats while ensuring that the First Amendment doesn’t become a tool to defend foreign adversaries’ exploitative practices.”
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President-elect Trump smiles throughout Turning Level USA’s AmericaFest on the Phoenix Conference Middle Dec. 22 in Phoenix. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Photos)
Trump’s transient stated it was “supporting neither party” and argued the longer term president has the fitting to make choices about TikTok’s destiny. Steven Cheung, Trump’s spokesman and the incoming White Home communications director, advised Fox Information Digital Trump’s decision-making would “preserve American national security.”
“[The brief asked] the court to extend the deadline that would cause TikTok’s imminent shutdown and allow President Trump the opportunity to resolve the issue in a way that saves TikTok and preserves American national security once he resumes office as president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2025,” Cheung stated.
Trump’s transient notes he “has a unique interest in the First Amendment issues raised in this case” and 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.”
TikTok Inc. places of work in Culver Metropolis, Calif. (AP Picture/Damian Dovarganes)
“As the incoming Chief Executive, President 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,” Trump’s transient stated.
Fox Information Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
