Three days after the decision of the appeal, TikTok introduced a motion of an emergency, to request the suspension of the enforcement of the law pending a review by the supreme Court. Social networking risks to be turned off if there is no sale until the 19th of January, 2025.
TikTok is waiting, also the decision of the Trump
The three judges of the court of appeal decided that the Law on the Protection of Americans from the Application of the Controlled Opposition of the Stranger, it is not unconstitutional. The law, which was adopted at the end of April, the forces ByteDance to sell TikTok is a company of the non-chinese are up to January 19, 2025. If the time limit is not adhered to, or a transaction does not start (which would allow for an extension of the 90-day) , the us government would be to order the prohibition of the platform, and the removal of the app from the stores of Apple and Google.
In practice, however, the judges thought that the First Amendment of the Constitution do not apply to a foreign company. She's TikTok now try another option. They are looking for in the court of appeals the suspension of the enforcement of the law, to give time to the supreme Court to review the case, stating that there was no imminent danger to the national security.
The deadline is the 19th of January 2025, falling exactly one day before Donald Trump to take office in the White House. The president is elected, he stated that it would challenge the ban, because there really is people, it is Facebook. In the motion, filed by TikTok says the suspension will also give the time of administration to the next, to determine the position of its own.
TikTok requires the judge of the court of appeal to decide on the motion until the 19th of December, so that there is enough time to file the same application in the High Court of justice.
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