Trump said he “takes no position on the merits of the dispute” between the government and TikTok. He instead wants the Supreme Court to delay the ban past the statutory Jan. 19 deadline so that his incoming administration can “pursue a negotiated resolution” and potentially “obviate the need for this Court to decide the historically challenging First Amendment question.”

The president-elect was by far the most high-profile person to weigh in on Friday, the deadline for interested parties to submit briefs to the Supreme Court as it prepares to decide the constitutionality of the law to force the sale of TikTok. Under a law signed by President Joe Biden this spring, the company must break ties with its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance in a few weeks or else app stores and internet hosting companies will be barred from distributing the app.