US President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to postpone the decision to ban the use of the social network TikTok, to give him space to work on a "political solution".
His lawyer filed a legal brief with the court on Friday, saying Trump "opposes the ban on TikTok" and "seeks the opportunity to resolve the matter through political means once he takes office . "
On January 10, the court will hear arguments on a US law that requires TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the social media company to a US firm or face a ban on using the social network in the US starting from January 19 - the day before Trump takes office, reports A2.
US officials and lawmakers have accused ByteDance of ties to the Chinese government, but the firm denies it. Those claims about an app that has 170 million users in the US led Congress to pass a bill in April, which President Joe Biden signed into law, that included the request to remove or ban TikTok.
TikTok and ByteDance have filed multiple arguments against the law, arguing that it threatens American free speech protections. With no potential buyers materializing so far, the companies' final chance to overturn the ban has been through the US Supreme Court.
While the Supreme Court has previously refused to act on a request for an emergency injunction against the law, it agreed to allow TikTok, ByteDance and the US government to present their cases on January 10, just days before the ban takes effect. in effect.
Trump just met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last week.
In his court filing Friday, Trump said the case represents "an unprecedented, novel and difficult tension between free speech rights on the one hand and foreign policy and national security concerns on the other." .
The US Department of Justice has argued that alleged Chinese ties to TikTok pose a national security threat, and multiple state governments have raised concerns about the popular social media app.
Trump has publicly said he opposes the ban, despite supporting one in his first term as president.
"I have a warm place in my heart for TikTok because I won the support of the youth by 34 percentage points," he claimed at a press conference earlier in December, although the majority of young voters supported his opponent, Kamala Harris. (A2 Televizion)
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