Trump tests Supreme Court power with TikTok intervention - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Sauer also calls Trump "one of the most powerful, prolific, and influential users of social media in history.
54% : "Through his historic victory on November 5, 2024, President Trump received a powerful electoral mandate from American voters to protect the free speech rights of all Americans -- including the 170 million Americans who use TikTok," Sauer wrote in the amicus brief.
51% : Sauer's brief drips with the kind of fealty to Trump unbefitting someone of his resume.
48% : Sauer is also the former solicitor general for the state of Missouri, so he is well aware that the job Trump nominated him for is one representing the interests of the government -- the people -- not extolling the virtue of any one person's "consummate deal-making expertise.
47% : Enter Trump with an argument that is as gobsmacking in style as it is in content.
41% : So what is Trump even doing here?
40% : But that measure was swiftly blocked by federal courts that ruled Trump overstepped his authority.
37% : What does this have to do with Trump?
29% : "But Sauer is also the attorney who argued that Trump was immune from federal prosecution for his attempt to upend the 2020 election results and for inciting violence on Jan. 6, 2021.
26% : Clearly that taught Trump the wrong lesson: that the justices, including the three he installed, are there to do his bidding.
25% : Essentially, he is asking the Supreme Court to ignore the law, ignore the Constitution, and grant Trump some sort of new presidential deal-making power never contemplated by the Founders -- all while Trump is still a private citizen.
25% : Remember, Trump already tried to "fix" TikTok during his first term, invoking emergency economic powers to issue an executive order to ban the platform.
24% : "But here's the kicker: "President Trump alone possesses the consummate deal-making expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the Government -- concerns which President Trump himself has acknowledged.

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