Trump asks Supreme Court to pause law that could ban TikTok

[ificandream]

Last edited Fri Dec 27, 2024, 06:05 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: MSNBC

Dec. 27, 2024, 2:09 PM PST / Updated Dec. 27, 2024, 2:23 PM PST
By Hayley Miller

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday urged the Supreme Court to pause a law that could ban TikTok nationwide on Jan. 19 if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the popular social media app to an American company.

In a 25-page amicus brief filed with the court, Trump asked the justices to stay the Jan. 19 deadline — which is one day before Inauguration Day — so his administration could “pursue a negotiated resolution” that would “obviate the need” for the justices to rule on the case.

“President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the Government — concerns which President Trump himself has acknowledged,” the brief stated.

TikTok and its parent company, China-based ByteDance, appealed to the Supreme Court last week after lower courts rejected its challenge to the law. The justices agreed to hear the challenge and set oral arguments in the case for Jan. 10.



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Calling his SCOTUS buddies to come rescue him.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Hoping his check will clear before that date . . . . . .

[Bluethroughu]

2. I didn't know he was President yet...

I thought that starts 1/20... that's a lot of time before he is administered the oath.

[ificandream]

4. Same thought here.

[PSPS]

8. As soon as the election was called, he instantly became the de-facto president in the media.

It's been 24/7 trump everywhere again. Even his yet-to-be-confirmed cabinet clowns are already sending out "warning letters."

[Bluethroughu]

12. I don't know if my heart can handle 4 years of this.

[kimbutgar]

3. i wonder how much he got paid in his offshore account from China?

[SWBTATTReg]

5. tRUMP should file a lawsuit or whatever everybody else does, to forestall implementation of a new law, via the

regular process that already exists to address such issues via the regular court system. He's not special or have any special powers, at least yet.

[ificandream]

6. Well, he kind of did with the amicus brief he filed today.

[SWBTATTReg]

19. Yes, I know, and one of my thoughts was that does he even have standing to do so? he seems like he goes

directly to the US Supreme Court every time he has anything. It's like his own personal court. That's really what I'm going after, that he doesn't have standing on literally anything or everything, at least not yet.

[Lucky Luciano]

7. My guess is he's trying to help out multi billionaire Jeff Yass.

Yass is a typical libertarian billionaire and founder of extremely successful Susquehanna Investment Group - a brilliant prop trading firm that was a pioneer in quantitative methods for trading…but Yass’s biggest boon came from being an early investor in ByteDance (TikTok) and this pushed his net worth to $44B.

Yass was a never trumper, but this cycle he grudgingly went with him and is prob part of the dark money. His lowness probably has to pay him back.


PS: Why the fuck would a President be making/pressuring the SCOTUS? That’s not how this is supposed to work. I know I know…just being rhetorical.

[GreenWave]

9. Does he even have standing? Or did they kick the can back from the future?

[onenote]

21. He filed an amicus brief. Standing not an issue

[MichMan]

10. If Trump is for Tik Tok, I'm in favor of banning it.

[Tarc]

11. I rather enjoy Tiktok, and always thought the zeal to ban it was a rather straneg position to stake out

Don't really care about Trump's position and bluster, but I'd rather see the app survive.

[Initech]

13. He's not the fucking president yet!

[Grins]

14. "the consummate dealmaking expertise?"

“President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise…”

He does? Proof…?

Did he write that? Or was it one of his ball-washers trying to curry favor with the beast?

[Ziggysmom]

17. You beat me to it! The "Consummate dealmaking expertise"

made me laugh my butt off!

[yaesu]

15. Helping his deep pocket contributor who is heavily invested in China owned Tik Tok. nt

[cstanleytech]

16. They *should* reject it and make their ruling as he isn't the President and has no say so.

Next year he will be but he isn't as of right now.

[Ziggysmom]

18. Bet he can count on one hand the number of times he "Consummated" with Mel !

Bet she is SO happy having the orange mushroom consummate with her

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. 'I don't know what this is': Prosecutor buries Trump's new 'Legally Blonde' court filing

This filing made no sense to me

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tiktok-2670695256/

A baffled MSNBC host and an amused Florida prosecutor attempted to make sense of a brief submitted by Donald Trump's lawyers to the U.S. Supreme Court regarding a possible ban of the popular TikTok app.

With the court poised to rule on the ban, an attorney for the president-elect -submitted a brief on Friday asking the judges to hold off on hearing the case until the president-elect is sworn in so he can attempt to negotiate a compromise......

Speaking with State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg, MSNBC host Christina Ruffini professed, "Does the president even have standing to do this? And what kind of a motion is this? Is this an amicus brief, a writ? I don't know what this is. Can he just involve himself in a case that he is not, you know, a party to? "

The laughing Aronberg replied, "These are all great questions; I had the same questions, too, because normally, Supreme Court? You've got this very buttoned-up group of lawyers who argue specific legal issues, and here's Trump, coming in like a bull in a china shop."

"It's like the movie 'Legally Blonde' when he comes in and just starts spouting off, like 'I have a huge electoral mandate, I'm the smartest and the best, and I can negotiate, so just pause everything, let me step in and let me handle this!'" he joked.

"There's nothing in the law that says he can do that, but he's Donald Trump," the prosecutor explained. "He appointed three out of these nine justices, so he thinks he can do it. I don't know if the Supreme Court is going to go along with it, but it is really interesting that Trump, who often thinks he's above the law, is now doing something I've never seen before in front of the Supreme Court."