TikTok takes Trump to court with powerful Washington law firm

'Unconstitutional' ban denies due process and stifles speech, app maker argues

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ByteDance has only weeks left to sell TikTok's operations in the U.S. before the wildly popular short-video app is shut out. © Reuters

YIFAN YU, Nikkei staff writer

PALO ALTO, U.S. -- TikTok filed suit Monday against President Donald Trump's executive order that will soon bar transactions in the U.S. with the popular short-video app and its Chinese parent, ByteDance.

A complaint filed in a California federal court calls the executive order "unlawful and unconstitutional" for reasons including violating the U.S. Constitution's protections for due process of law and freedom of speech.

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