The U.S. Supreme Court is holding a special session on Jan. 10, 2025, in order to hear challenges to the Jan. 19 implementation of the bill that would ban TikTok, and Donald Trump is among those who have filed briefs to the court.
“This 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,” his filing says. “President Trump opposes banning TikTok in the United States at this juncture and seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office.”
TikTok is an important forum for political debate, and Trump has the negotiating skills and social media savvy (including by founding the “resoundingly successful” Truth Social) to address the issue politically.
“President Trump … has a compelling interest as the incoming embodiment of the Executive Branch in seeing the statutory deadline stayed to allow his incoming Administration the opportunity to seek a negotiated resolution of these questions. If successful, such a resolution would obviate the need for this Court to decide the historically challenging First Amendment question presented here on the current, highly expedited basis.”
