‘Lawless’: Legal experts knock Trump’s ‘silly’ TikTok filing to Supreme Court
Raw StoryDonald Trump’s recent legal filing to the Supreme Court regarding a possible ban on the popular TikTok app was largely met with ridicule and bewilderment by legal experts, who doubted the incoming president’s legal basis for his request. “It would be pretty lawless of them to.” Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, took aim at John Sauer – the brief’s author and Trump’s nominee for solicitor general. But I’d be rather floored if a majority of the Court were to rely upon it.” Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard University law professor and senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, added that Sauer’s legal filing “diminishes his credibility before the court even before assuming office,” according to Politico, which noted that even “right-of-center legal scholars” were surprised by what Trump was asking of the justices. Still, Josh Blackman, a conservative professor of constitutional law at the South Texas College of Law Houston, wrote that while he “can’t think of a comparable example where the incoming President has sought to counteract the current President before the Supreme Court,” “we are living in strange times,” Politico reported.