A US federal judge late Sunday, September 27, halted a politically charged ban ordered by the Trump administration on downloads of the popular video app TikTok, hours before was to go into effect. - AFP
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters): A US government order banning TikTok from app stores imposed by the Trump administration -- which had been set to kick in Sunday (Sept 27), at midnight ET -- was temporarily halted by a federal judge.
Judge Carl Nichols of the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued the ruling Sunday night, granting TikTok's motion for a preliminary injunction just three and a half hours before the ban was to take effect. Trump appointed Nichols to the federal bench in June 2019.
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