The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court this Friday to postpone the application of a law that prohibits the social network TikTok in the country until he assumes the Presidency
The ban would be if its owner does not sell the platform. “President Trump urges the court to suspend the law’s effective date to allow his incoming Administration to seek a solution that could avoid a national shutdown of TikTok“John Sauer, also the Republican candidate for attorney general, wrote in a filing.
Why wait to suspend TikTok in the US
According to the Republican’s lawyer, wait to implement the law would preserve “the First Amendment rights of tens of millions of Americans,” while also addressing “the Government’s national security concerns.”
This extension “would grant President Trump the opportunity to seek a political solution that could obviate the court’s need to decide these constitutionally important questions.”
The United States Supreme Court agreed last week to review TikTok’s appeal of this law, which would force ByteDanceits Chinese owner, to sell the popular video-sharing platform as a condition of maintaining its activity in the country.
It would come into force on January 19
The highest judicial body scheduled the arguments in the case for January 10 and did not suspend the entry into force of the law on January 19, as the company intended. The law, signed by President Joe Biden in April, would block TikTok from US stores unless ByteDance sells it before January 19.
Congress approved it arguing that it seeks prevent risks of espionage and manipulation of users by Chinese authorities. For its part, TikTok denies having transmitted information to Beijing and maintains that the law violates its free speech rights protected by the First Amendment.
The potential ban could strain relations between the United States and China just before Donald Trump’s inauguration, on January 20. The Republican became an unexpected ally of TikTok, after considering that its ban would benefit giants like Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta (Facebook, Instagram).
In fact, this month he met with the platform’s CEO, Shou Chewat his golf club in Mar-a-Lago (Florida).
Donald Trump announces his ambassador to Panama after the controversy over the canal
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, announced that he will nominate as ambassador to Panama to Kevin Marino Cabreracurrent commissioner of Miami-Dade County, and insisted that The Central American country is “swindling” the United States in the Panama Canal.
“I am pleased to announce that Kevin Marino Cabrera will serve as ambassador of the United Statess in the Republic of Panama, a country that is scamming us in the Panama Canal, far beyond what they could dream of,” the Republican launched in a statement.
Trump stated that Marino Cabrera is “a fierce fighter” for the principles of “America First,” who defends his administration.
Source: Ambito
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