Another judge blocks Trump’s TikTok ban

Judge Carl Nichols is the second federal judge to fully block the Trump administration’s economic sanctions against the app as the court cases proceed.

TikTok (Peter Byrne/PA)

A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s attempts to ban TikTok, the latest legal defeat for his administration as it tries to wrest the popular app from its Chinese owners.

The Trump administration had tried to ban the short-form video app from smartphone app stores in the US and cut it off from vital technical services.