[dodobirdlord]

The claim isn’t a dispute about the legitimacy of the national security grounds, that will probably come later. The claim is that the EO prohibits retaining US lawyers, which is pretty clearly a violation of due process.

[blisseyGo]

Regarding the retaining US lawyers part - I think it would fall under FARA:

https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara

[dodobirdlord]

The EO imposes a prohibition on financial transactions between US citizens (and probably also residents?) and ByteDance, so they wouldn't be able to pay their lawyers even if registered. So it's essentially a ban on having lawyers