https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/trump-claims-the-power-to-nullify-the-law/

Remember when Congress banned TikTok? A bipartisan majority passed a law last year to ban the massively popular social media platform due to the national security implications of its control by the Chinese government. President Joe Biden signed it into law, and in January the Supreme Court upheld the law. And yet, TikTok is still with us. So what happened?

How does a law… not become a law? According to the Trump administration, the president has the authority to nullify laws he doesn’t like. The fate of the TikTok ban hasn’t made national headlines in months among the deluge of other notable anti-democratic Trump administration actions. But in letters obtained this week by the New York Times, the Trump administration is claiming broad powers to simply wipe from the books laws it does not like. The TikTok ban has become Exhibit A.

The TikTok law operated not as an outright ban but by making it illegal to host the app in app stores and cloud and internet services, with punishing fines for companies that disobeyed. But in seeking to overturn the law by fiat, the Trump administration tells companies like Apple and Google that they are off the hook.

“Article II of the United States Constitution vests in the President the responsibility over national security and the conduct of foreign policy,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in an April letter to tech companies including Apple, Google, and Amazon. The TikTok law, she continued, does not “infringe upon such core Presidential national security and foreign affairs powers.” In other words, if the president invokes his authority in the realms of national security and foreign affairs, he can nullify a law.

Bondi’s letters informed the tech companies that continuing to host TikTok, despite the plain language of the law, was not illegal. Not only was it a promise that the Trump administration would not enforce the law, but that no future administration could. This move is unprecedented. “Recent past presidents have been aggressive in exercising law enforcement discretion,” Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith told the Times, “but they haven’t suspended the operation of a law entirely or immunized its violation prospectively.”

This isn’t the first time Trump has attempted to thwart or ignore the law. In the past week, his Education Department refused to disburse $7 million in funding for afterschool care programs, English language instruction, and other programs. The money was appropriated by Congress and signed by the president, and its disbursement is required by law. But the Office of Management and Budget, under director Russel Vought, has claimed the power to impound funds. In the case of the missing education money, OMB is investigating whether the funds were being used to further a “radical leftwing agenda.” This isn’t the first time the Trump administration has illegally refused to spend money, and it certainly won’t be the last.

Still, claiming that the president has inherent powers to nullify represents an unprecedented power grab by the Trump administration. If the law can be turned on and off by the president, Congress’ authority is worthless. Today, it’s the TikTok ban and spending requirements. What’s next?

>>1418281 (OP)
>So what happened?
>How does a law… not become a law?
Well, Biden announced his administration would not enforce it.
And trump has delayed enforcing it due to larger issues. Looks like trumps handling it about now though
https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-trump-executive-order-1e95d9836bf6f8c0c245ed1c3234d968

>>1418299
wrong
>Biden signed a law in April 2024 (Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act) that would ban TikTok unless its parent company, ByteDance, sold its U.S. assets.
>The Supreme Court upheld the law in January 2025.
>Biden's administration clarified that enforcement of the ban, if necessary, would fall to President-elect Donald Trump.
>President Trump has since extended the enforcement delay several times. The latest extension, issued in June 2025, extends the delay until September 17, 2025.

>>1418302
>wrong
Fuck off faggot, you are wrong. The title of the AP article is literally "Biden won’t enforce TikTok ban, official says, leaving fate of app to Trump" and the first paragraph is literally "President Joe Biden won’t enforce a ban on the social media app TikTok that is set to take effect a day before he leaves office on Monday, a U.S. official said Thursday, leaving its fate in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump"

Fuck off, faggot misinformation propaganda boy

>>1418309
wrong again
>The Supreme Court upheld the law in January 2025.
>Biden's administration clarified that enforcement of the ban, if necessary, would fall to President-elect Donald Trump.

>>1418309
>"President Joe Biden won’t enforce a ban on the social media app TikTok that is set to take effect a day before he leaves office on Monday, a U.S. official said Thursday, leaving its fate in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump"
…yeah, and? Biden didn’t enforce a new law that went into effect literally the day before he left office. No shit. What’s your point?

>>1418281 (OP)
Trump wishes to clear his pedomind of wrongdoing. He can't, Hell will always remind him what he has done.

>>1418409
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/oct/13/trump-makes-inappropriate-remarks-about-10-year-old-girl-video
Matthew 18:6: 'But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble and sin, it would be better for him to have a heavy
millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea'
The millstone that is the Gang Of Pedophiles losing bigly in the midterms is about to go round his neck. And as the Teabaggers died with Romney's failure in 2012, the pedo enablers that is the cult of MAGA will drown with Trump. Good

Yup yup. America is a lawless nation where the powerful diddle kids in the street. And since this hasn't provoked armed rebellion we can safely conclude that's the way Americans want it. After all if one person sits at a table with nine MAZIs you have ten NAZIs sitting at a table. It's time to tell the whole world not to try to live there; Even the west bank is safer. We need to rescue the few people who still have morals and empathy from that Hellhole and give them refugee status!

>https://www.politico.com/story/2012/06/obamas-policy-strategy-ignore-laws-077486

“We work to achieve our policy goals in the most effective and appropriate way possible,” the official said. “Often times, Congress has blocked efforts (ie [No Child Left Behind] and DREAM) and we look to pursue other appropriate means of achieving our policy goals. Sometimes this makes for less-than-ideal policy situations — such as the action we took on immigration — but the president isn’t going to be stonewalled by politics, he will pursue whatever means available to do business on behalf of American people.”

For Obama — and future presidents should Washington remain polarized to the point of perpetual inaction — it may be the only way to fulfill a range of campaign promises.

As of Friday, the federal government won’t deport undocumented immigrants under age 30 who came to the United States as children. It is a temporary, de facto implementation of a part of the stalled DREAM Act.

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>>1418281 (OP)
Whoa! His blood can nullify law? Do we have a new Messiah? The Antichrist?