TikTok Judge Tells U.S. to Delay Ban or Argue for It Friday
- App’s Chinese owner seeks a temporary block on Trump’s ban
- Judge wants U.S. brief now unless it postpones Sunday deadline
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The Trump administration was ordered to postpone a U.S. ban on TikTok set for Sunday or respond by Friday to a request by the app’s Chinese owner for a court order temporarily blocking the ban.
The owner, ByteDance Ltd., is seeking a preliminary injunction on the ban even as it continues to pursue approvals from the administration for a sale of the video-sharing app’s U.S. operations to Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. forced by President Donald Trump. It has asked the court to weigh its request ahead of the prohibition, which takes effect just before midnight on Sunday.