Mitch McConnell Urges Supreme Court To Reject TikTok's Delay Request, Says Platform Hoping For Less Hostile DOJ In Trump Administration

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What Happened: McConnell dismissed TikTok’s First Amendment claims in his filing.“The topsy-turvy idea that TikTok has an expressive right to facilitate the CCP censorship regime is absurd,” his counsel Michael A.Fragoso wrote.“TikTok clearly desires this Court to enjoin the divesture date in the vain hopes that the divesture order will be punted into the next presidential administration where, perhaps, TikTok will find relief from divesture from a less hostile Department of Justice,” the filing read.

On Wednesday, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, urging the rejection of TikTok’s request to delay a law that could ban the app in January.

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