Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPresident Trump exceeded his legal authority in issuing an executive order that would ban TikTok in the U.S., the Chinese-owned app company said in a lawsuit Monday against the administration.That’s because Trump’s ban is “not based on a bona fide national emergency and authorizes the prohibition of activities that have not been found to pose ‘an unusual and extraordinary threat,'” as required under U.S.
law, TikTok alleged in the federal lawsuit.TiKTok argued that Trump’s order falsely invoked national-security concerns as a “pretext for furthering the President’s broader campaign of anti-China rhetoric in the run-up to the U.S.
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