Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAs a deal deciding the fate of TikTok hangs in the balance, the Chinese-owned video app is seeking a preliminary injunction to halt the Trump administration’s order that would ban app stores from carrying TikTok in the U.S.
as of Sept. 27.“There is simply no genuine emergency here that would justify the government’s precipitous actions,” TikTok said in the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia. “And there is no plausible reason to insist the prohibitions be enforced immediately.”TikTok alleges that Trump cited “national security” concerns as a pretext for trying to shut down the app in the absence of a deal to transfer ownership of TikTok to American buyers.
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