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The executive order will just be baldly illegal, and what happens in the litigation on it is the next battle. TikTok is, as we speak, breaking US law.
by sanderjd 2y ago
The executive order will just be baldly illegal, and what happens in the litigation on it is the next battle.
TikTok is, as we speak, breaking US law.
- Karrot_Kream 2y agoNo there's an actual provision in the law that allows the President to delay enforcement one-time for 90 days: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text#HF58A3513596C4ECA9863FB2565FDF872 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521... . This was an explicit provision of the bill.
- sanderjd 2y agoThe provision requires the president to tell congress that a deal is in the works. Either the executive order makes no such claim and is unlawful, or there really is a deal in the works, or the president is unlawfully making an untrue claim. There is likely to be no punishment for either of those unlawful outcomes, but they are still unlawful.