Trump urges Supreme Court to delay TikTok decision until he takes office
Supreme Court will hear arguments over the TikTok ban-or-sale law
The Supreme Court will hear arguments over a federal law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, does not sell the social media platform, which has over 170 million users in the nation. LiveNOW's Austin Westfall discussed the developing news with former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani.
LOS ANGELES - President-elect Donald Trump wants to decide TikTok's future in America after he takes office, urging the Supreme Court to postpone its ruling on the social media platform, FOX News reported on Friday.
Trump filed an amicus brief "supporting neither party" Friday, weeks before the high court plans to hear arguments about requiring TikTok's divestment from foreign adversary control.
What Trump wants the Supreme Court to do
The brief asks justices to extend deadlines that could force TikTok's shutdown, Trump spokesman and incoming White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital.
Why Trump says he should decide
Trump argues he holds "a particularly powerful interest in and responsibility for those national-security and foreign-policy questions" as the incoming president, according to the court filing.
The brief states Trump received "a powerful electoral mandate" to protect free speech rights, including those of TikTok's American users.
What's at stake with TikTok
ByteDance, a Beijing-based company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, owns TikTok.
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 brief states.