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‘Lawless’: Trump’s TikTok brief asks Supreme Court to overreach, legal experts say

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Trump filed a brief Friday asking the Supreme Court to suspend the law’s critical Jan. 19 deadline until after he takes office.

The law will effectively ban TikTok in the United States if the social media platform fails to cut ties with its Beijing -based owner by that date.

Experts said Trump had no grounds to ask to pause the TikTok law before taking office as president.

“We are living in strange times” and that “ Trump ’s brief at least ups the odds for TikTok , ever so slightly” Rozenshtein said it would be lawless” for the Supreme Court to grant Trump ’s request.