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Summary
Donald Trump submitted a Supreme Court filing opposing a TikTok ban, citing his “dealmaking expertise” and promising to resolve national security concerns.
The brief advocates delaying the case to allow Trump to address it politically.
Legal experts criticized the filing for being overly self-promotional and unprecedented, with some mistaking it for satire.
Critics noted its unusual tone and highlighted the involvement of Trump’s potential solicitor general pick, D. John Sauer, in drafting the document.
The case concerns TikTok’s alleged violations of privacy laws and ties to China.
We’ll see how idiotic and servile the Supreme Court will be under Trump. Good to know early on.
Yeah the outcome of this will be telling. From a legal standpoint it should be clear - Congress has passed a law and the president has signed it into law.
Trumps plans and intentions are irrelevant - he should need congress to pass a new law to undo this one. It’d be bizarre for the Supreme Court to undermine the law based on a whim of the president elect.
But if the Supreme Court do go along with trumps whims then we’ll have a very clear idea how bad things have already gotten. However it’s clear things are already pretty fucking bad as the US constitution and infrastructure failed to stop an insurrectionist getting power.
part of me is wondering if this isn’t a sounding board by trump to see if they’ll toe the line. (They’ll toe the line because they’re removeds who like to watch.)