TikTok Is Cooked, Trump Is Sentenced | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

While Donald J Trump was virtually fuming at his sentencing hearing in Judge Juan Merchan’s New York City courtroom on Friday morning, the nine justices of the US Supreme Court were taking their seats for oral arguments in the so-called TikTok ban case. And while it only took 40 minutes for the president elect’s sentence of an ‘unconditional discharge’ to be pronounced, the arguments over national security, the First Amendment, and an app that 170 million Americans use took a couple of hours longer.

Amicus has an analysis of all of it. First, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss whether and how Trump’s sentence matters, and what it tells us about the Supreme Court under Trump 2.0. Next, they’re joined by Gautam Hans, clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, who specializes in constitutional law, technology law and policy, to discuss why the Supreme Court seemed so very ready to reach right past the First Amendment and grab for national security in order to uphold the TikTok ban.

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I see little evidence, and a lot to the contrary, that our American broligarchy has our best interests---for us as individuals or national security---uppermost in their minds or motivations. Their money and power and relentless manipulation (see what I mean) is what persuaded Congress and Biden to craft (or go along with) the law's "solution" to the perceived problem. Just transferring who does the dirty deeds to entities better placed to exploit the downsides of a popular app only makes things WORSE and is step 3 of what has been achieved already by these power-hungry creeps. Step 2 occurred Nov 5th.