Trump Asks the Supremes to Delay a TikTok Ban

The sleepy Friday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be not so sleepy after all. President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon asking to delay the effective date of a law banning TikTok. The law will ban TikTok on Jan. 19—one day before Trump takes office—unless it can find a buyer that satisfies U.S. national security concerns about the app.

Trump’s brief wasn’t your usual dry legal filing, even though it did more formally articulate the concerns about a TikTok ban that he has been expressing on social media and in interviews for months.