Expand / / There is and isn’t a ban in effect on WeChat. (charge: Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images)
A federal judge in California set a temporary block to the White House’s attempts to ban WeChat within the USA, preventing this prohibit going into effect at midnight tonight.
“The plaintiffs demonstrate serious questions going into the merits of the First Amendment Claim,” US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler wrote in her judgment (PDF) early that afternoon.
The judgment came in response to a litigation registered by a set of WeChat users within the united states. The team, coordinated because the US WeChat Users Alliance, claimed in their criticism that the ban violated their First and Fifth Amendment rights in Addition to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Administrative Procedures Act. The team also asserts that the law mentioned in that the executive order prohibiting WeChat doesn’t actually give President Donald Trump the jurisdiction maintained in this purchase.
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