By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Extension.
There is a legal basis: congress passed a law, the president at the time signed it, TikTok sued, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against TikTok. That’s a legal basis by definition.
Perhaps you mean that there is no rational basis. That’s a reasonable position you can argue for.
🌮 🌮 🌮 I guess there is no legal basis anyway for banning video upload app, just because it is Chinese. Trump is an idiot. And 🐔
There is a legal basis: congress passed a law, the president at the time signed it, TikTok sued, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against TikTok. That’s a legal basis by definition.
Perhaps you mean that there is no rational basis. That’s a reasonable position you can argue for.
In this case, someone would have to sue or otherwise intervene. But that action is radically unpopular. Nobody wants to be that guy.
This isn’t TACO, it’s graft.
There is a legal basis. US can ban Russian Times paper, too.