The court has sided against Trump in other cases, including
Although the decision to keep TikTok alive through an executive order has received some scrutiny, it has not faced a legal challenge in court. That type of pushback is unlikely, legal experts say, due in part to how difficult it is for someone to establish the legal right, or standing, to sue. A plaintiff would have to be able to show harm from the delay in enforcing the law.Sarah Kreps, director of Cornell University’s Tech Policy Institute, said she doesn’t believe anyone has that standing.
“It would be different if this platform weren’t already in place,” she said. “But if you’re trying to just continue with the status quo, it’s different.”Still, if the extension keeps control of TikTok’s algorithm under ByteDance’s authority, the national security concerns that led to the ban persist.Chris Pierson, CEO of the cybersecurity and privacy protection platform BlackCloak, said that if the algorithm is still controlled by ByteDance, then it is still “controlled by a company that is in a foreign, adversarial nation-state that actually could use that data for other means.”
“The main reason for all this is the control of data and the control of the algorithm,” said Pierson, who served on the Department of Homeland Security’s Privacy Committee and Cybersecurity Subcommittee for more than a decade. “If neither of those two things change, then it has not changed the underlying purpose, and it has not changed the underlying risks that are presented.”The law allows for one 90-day reprieve, but only if there’s a deal on the table and a formal notification to Congress. Trump’s actions so far violate the law, said Alan Rozenshtein, an associate law professor at the University of Minnesota.
Rozenshtein pushed back on Trump’s claim that delaying the ban is an “extension.”
“He’s not extending anything. This continues to simply be a unilateral non enforcement declaration,” he said. “All he’s doing is saying that he will not enforce the law for 75 more days. The law is still in effect. The companies are still violating it by providing services to Tiktok.Andretti will now have to prepare for a Sunday shootout against Marcus Armstrong, who crashed in morning practice but got a backup on track as the minutes ticked down on Saturday’s session, Rinus VeeKay and rookie Jacob Abel.
One of the four will not make the field for “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” on May 25.“We just need to do four solid ones (laps Sunday) and we should be OK,” Andretti said. “But just even running tomorrow is a bummer. We have speed problems. I’ve seen it across the garage with big teams. It’s just how it is. I drew that straw this year.”
The famed Andretti family has only won the Indianapolis 500 once — a 1969 win by Mario Andretti — and the struggles his sons, nephew and grandson have gone through at the speedway are referred to as “The Andretti Curse.”Armstrong said in addition to the car preparation Meyer Shank Racing had to do, the New Zealand native also had to go through IndyCar’s concussion protocol to even be cleared to race.