Prof. Alan Rozenshtein Quoted by CBS News About Additional Delay in Enforcement of Law That Bans TikTok

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted by CBS News about the Trump administration again delaying the enforcement the law that bans TikTok. It’s the fourth time that Trump has pushed back enforcing the bipartisan law that effectively bans TikTok due to the the app’s failure to cut ties with ByteDance, its China-based parent company. The executive order extends the pause until at least Dec. 16. On Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the U.S. and China had agreed to “a framework” to resolve the ownership dispute. Prof. Rozenshtein said it’s not unusual for laws to go unenforced, but it’s typically because there are resource constraints or the law is ambiguous, but the TikTok law is “completely unambiguous.” He said, “There’s no room to argue that the law doesn’t say what it says and there’s also no resource constraint. I don't think that there is a sort of similar instance of this sort of flagrant attempt to let a company violate the law.”