TikTok to Sue Trump Administration as Soon as Tuesday, NPR Says
- Report says company challenging Trump national-security claim
- TikTok has said it will pursue remedies including legal action
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TikTok plans to file a federal lawsuit as soon as Tuesday to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the video-sharing service from the U.S. as unconstitutional, National Public Radio reported.
The lawsuit will be filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, where TikTok’s American operations are based, NPR said, citing a person familiar with the matter whom it didn’t identify. It will argue that the president’s action is unconstitutional because it failed to give the company a chance to respond and that the U.S. government’s national-security justification for the order is baseless, according the report.