Biden administration pays almost $1 million in legal fees to end court fight over Trump's WeChat ban
A group of WeChat users in the US sued, alleging the order was unconstitutional.The Biden administration has agreed to pay almost $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a group of WeChat users in the US, ending a longThe nonprofit US WeChat Users Alliance sued the Trump administration in federal court last year, alleging that its ban on the Chinese-owned messaging app was unconstitutional.
written in Chinese, the US WeChat Users Alliance thanked its lawyers and said the app never should have been banned in the first place. The organization said the lawsuit involved more than a dozen attorneys from five different firms, many of whom worked pro bono. The US WeChat Users Alliance was formed last year by a group of accomplished Chinese American lawyers who came together after Trump began targeting WeChat and TikTok as relations between the US and China worsened. Citing national security concerns, the president signed two executive orders in August barring US citizens from engaging in any transaction with WeChat's and TikTok's parent companies, Tencent and ByteDance, respectively.
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