U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco said in an order that WeChat users who filed a lawsuit “have shown serious questions going to the merits of the First Amendment claim, the balance of hardships tips in the plaintiffs’ favor.”
Every single thing President Trump does ends up in court.
On Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department issued an order citing national security grounds to block the app from U.S. app stores owned by Tencent Holding’s.
The Justice Department had urged Beeler not to block the order. Tencent and the Justice Department did not immediately comment.
Even national security is politicized by activist judges.
Beeler’s preliminary injunction also blocked the Commerce order that would have barred other transactions with WeChat in the United States that could have dramatically degraded the site’s usability for current U.S. users or potentially made it unusable.
The U.S. Commerce Department did not immediately comment.
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