The incoming president's stance on TikTok's fate remains unclear as the platform seeks a last-minute reprieve from the Supreme Court.
The president-elect told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Monday that he would 'take a look' at the situation surrounding the platform’s future, before meeting with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew a few hours later. It’s unclear what Trump could or would do to stop the law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese parent company doesn't sell it. The law is currently slated to go into effect Jan. 19, one day before Trump takes office. The D.C.
Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month upheld the law in the face of challenges from TikTok and Apple and Google that they need to be ready to remove the platform from their app stores on Jan. 19. Americans will still be able to use TikTok if and when this happens, but as the Justice Department put it in a filing last week, the move would ultimately 'render the application unworkable.' TikTok’s options for staving off a ban are dwindling. The platform on Monday made an emergency request to the Supreme Court, asking it to delay the ban and reiterating its argument that the ban violates the First Amendment. TikTok noted that if it goes into effect as scheduled it 'will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration.' TikTok asked the Supreme Court to act by Jan. 6. The Supreme Court could be interested in the case given its unique and high-profile nature, but legal experts are skeptical the justices would overturn the D.C. Circuit’s unanimous decision to uphold the ban. TikTok’s emergency appeal to the nation’s highest court comes a week after the platform asked the D.C. Circuit Court to block the ban from taking effect, arguing Trump should have a chance to save the platform once he takes office. Trump’s position has been a little hard to pin down. He pushed for a ban while he was in office, but seemed to cozy up to the app this year
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